Rocker Ted Nugent reveals he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus, months after saying the virus “was not a real pandemic.”
“I thought I was dying,” Nugent says in a live Facebook video posted Monday. “I literally couldn’t get out of bed in the last few days,” he added, “So today I’ve been officially positive on COVID-19.”
In a video shot at his Michigan ranch, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer repeatedly uses racist insults to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he would not receive the vaccine because he erroneously states that “no one knows what there is “.
Nugent, a supporter of former President Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has spoken out against public health restrictions. He has repeated a narrative driven by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official coronavirus death toll is inflated.
A survey by the Associated Press-Center NORC for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they would probably or definitely not get vaccinated, compared to 12% of Democrats. The national average of seven-day cases remains more than 60,000 new infections a day.