Rocker Ted Nugent reveals he was in pain after testing positive for coronavirus – months after saying the virus ‘is not a real pandemic’.
“I thought I was going to die,” Nugent said in a Facebook live video posted Monday. “I literally could hardly crawl out of bed for the last few days,” and I added, “So I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.”
In a video shot on his farm in Michigan, the ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ singer repeatedly uses racist insults to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous position that he would not get the vaccine because he wrongly claims that ‘nobody knows what’s in it. It.”
Nugent, a supporter of former President Trump, earlier called the pandemic a scam and fought against public health restrictions. He repeated a story quoted by conservative media and disputed by health experts suggesting that the official death toll from the coronavirus had been inflated.
A poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the end of March found that 36% of Republicans said they were likely or definitely not to be vaccinated, compared to 12% of Democrats. The country’s average of seven days is more than 60,000 new infections per day.