Despite a tonne of information about the COVID-19 virus, there are some people who still refuse to acceptthe reality about the virus that is still wreaking havoc across the globe.
In the past few months, we've all seen how this denialmanifests in different ways - from people who chose not to wear masks, to otherswho do not shy away from attending enormous social gatherings.
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Now. a nurse from South Dakota, US, has revealed that there are COVID-19 patients who do not believe in COVID-19. Despite being infected, they are still in utter denialabout the existence of the novel coronavirus.
Jodi Doering tweeted about how the nursing staff are oftenat the receiving end of targeted hate from patients who don¡¯t believe in thevirus.?
'They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that¡®stuff¡¯ because they don¡¯t have COVID because it¡¯s not real,' she tweeted.
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After her Twitter thread describing her experience startedcirculating on the internet, Doeringappeared on CNN¡®s New Day?on Monday, to talk about how despite the surge inCOVID-19 cases some of them don¡¯t believe the virus is real.
"I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are stilllooking for something else and they want a magic answer, and they don¡¯t want tobelieve that COVID-19 is real,¡± she said.
¡°People want it to be influenza, they want it to bepneumonia, and we¡¯ve even had people say, 'I think it could be lung cancer'." She recalled that one of her patients¡¯ last words were, ¡°This can¡¯t behappening. It¡¯s not real.¡±
¡°It¡¯s like a movie where the credits never roll,¡± Doeringsaid. ¡°And it¡¯s hard and sad, because every hospital, every nurse, every doctorin the state is seeing the same things¡±.
In response to Jodi's revelation another nurse wrote, 'ER nurse from Illinois here, yes I¡¯ve witnessed people sick with COVID and still tell me ¡°it¡¯s a hoax¡± and refuse to wear a mask. In the hospital. While they¡¯re on oxygen'.
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India recorded 38,617 cases and 474 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the country¡¯s overall COVID caseload to 89.12 lakh. India¡¯s 89,12,908 cases includes 4,46,805 active cases, 83,35,110 recoveries and 1,30,993 deaths.