The Tennessee nurse who famously fainted on camera after receiving her COVID-19 vaccine in December is not dead – but is trying to tell legions of doubters on social media.
Compassion poured in from around the world, mourning the passing of the 30-year-old mother of two Tiffany Dover – although she’s alive and well, a fact that her family and Chattanooga Hospital have publicly repeated, though not by much. congratulations.
The culprit behind the persistent misinformation campaign appears to be anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists in general.
“I’m really disgusted with people now,” Dover’s sister-in-law wrote to Instagram recently, according to the Daily Beast. “TIFFANY IS LIVING AND FINE.”
But that prevents some non-believers from thinking that photos sharing Dover’s hair in different places could somehow prove her dead.
One doubter even started a Facebook page titled, “Where’s Tiffany Dover?”, Which currently has 5,400 members.
‘This group is merely to get confirmation that Tiffany Dover is safe. All we ask is to provide concrete proof that she is alive and well, ”reads the page.
Dover fainted on camera in mid-December after receiving a Pfizer shot in her arm as part of a pro-COVID-19 immunization effort by CHI Memorial Hospital.
The nurse later told local TV that it is not uncommon for her to fall out if she is experiencing pain.
But still, rumors that she had died turned to the point that her hospital was forced to try to put them to bed twice.
It tweeted on December 18 that she was ‘home and doing well’, the Daily Beast said three days later, released video of the nurse in the hospital with other staff members holding signs with the day’s date.
A representative at the Chattanooga police station told Daily Beast that his own social media sites were littered with requests to ask if the agency was investigating whether Dover was dead.
“The police department is not involved in this at all because there is no crime, no death, nothing,” the spokesman said.