The Tennessee nurse who fainted on camera after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in December is not dead, but try to explain it to legions of doubters on social media.
Condolences from around the world have mourned the death of Tiffany Dover’s two-year-old mother, 30, while she is alive and well, a fact that her family and Chattanooga Hospital have publicly repeated, despite which not with much luck.
The culprit in the persistent disinformation campaign seems to be anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists in general.
“Right now I’m disgusted with people,” Dover’s sister-in-law recently wrote on Instagram, according to the Daily Beast. “TIFFANY IS ALIVE AND FINE.”
But that hasn’t stopped some non-believers from reflecting on the fact that photos showing Dover’s hair in different places could somehow prove she’s dead.
One questioner even started a Facebook page titled “Where’s Tiffany Dover?”. It currently has 5,400 members.
“This group is simply getting confirmation that Tiffany Dover is safe. All we ask for is concrete proof that she is alive and well,” the page says.
Dover fainted in the camera in mid-December after receiving a shot from Pfizer in the arm as part of a pro-COVID-19 vaccination effort by CHI Memorial Hospital.
Later, the nurse told local television that it is not uncommon for her to faint when she feels pain.
But still, rumors that he died have swirled to the point that his hospital was forced to publicly try to put them to bed twice.
He posted a tweet on Dec. 18 that he was “at home and doing well,” the Daily Beast said three days later. posted the video from the nurse to the hospital with other staff members with posters with the date of the day.
A Chattanooga police department representative told the Daily Beast that their own social media sites have been full of petitions asking if the agency is investigating whether Dover is dead.
“The police department is not involved in anything because there is no crime, no death, nothing,” the spokeswoman said.