Right wing rocker and Michigan native Ted Nugent took to Facebook this week to announce he tested positive for COVID-19 and experienced severe symptoms for 10 days.
In a live video Monday night, Nugent said he had “flu symptoms” for 10 days that made him feel like he was “dying.”
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“I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days ... I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today,” he said in the video laden with graphic language and completely false statements about vaccines.
Nugent, 72, had called COVID-19 “not a real pandemic.” In his video Monday he said people told him he shouldn’t announce that he tested positive.
Nugent, a loud supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, also has called the pandemic a scam and complained about public health restrictions.
A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they will probably or definitely not get vaccinated, compared with 12% of Democrats. The seven-day national average of cases remains over 60,000 new infections per day.
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