A 30-year-old coronavirus patient in San Antonio died Friday after attending a “COVID party,” or a party held as an experiment by someone diagnosed with COVID-19 to see if any guests become infected, according to a hospital. from Texas. .
The parties have become major coronavirus sites spread throughout the United States as measures of social distancing are loosened. In university towns and other areas, cases tend to be younger and connected again to social gatherings. But unlike young people who are driven by their invincibility against COVID-19, these specific partygoers believed that the disease itself was not a threat.
“Right before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said, ‘I think I made a mistake, I thought it was a hoax, but it is not,'” said Jane Appleby, medical director of the San Antonio Methodist hospital. A local means of communication.
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Coronavirus cases have been on the rise in San Antonio and other parts of Texas, which was one of the first states to reopen despite the ongoing pandemic. But a recent survey shows that as more neighbors get infected, Most Texans support another block.
“He doesn’t discriminate and neither of us is invincible,” Appleby told the local NBC News affiliate. “I don’t want to be an alarmist, and we’re just trying to share some real-world examples to help our community realize that this virus is very serious and can spread easily.”
Despite warnings issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other top public health officials, some Americans still doubt the dangers of the coronavirus and even its existence. Political figures including the former Texas representative Ron Paul They called the pandemic “deception” and made public health a partisan issue.
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President Trump and his administration have minimized the risk of the coronavirus since earlier this year. During a demonstration in South Carolina in February, President Trump accused Democrats of politicizing the pandemic and said his criticism was “his new deception.” While he has not called the disease or pandemic itself a hoax, some of his supporters’ beliefs reflect his attitude.
In April, almost 3 in 10 Americans believed that COVID-19 was manufactured in a laboratory, either intentionally or accidentally, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents were more likely to believe this and think that people were overreacting to the outbreak, another survey found, instead of not taking it seriously enough.
While scientists say SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, likely originated from bats found in China, conspiracy theories have persisted. In May, Facebook posts falsely claimed that COVID-19 is false and that the pandemic is a cover for the deployment of 5G network towers and microchip of US citizens. While Facebook and other social media platforms have responded by including warnings in or even removing such posts, the continued spread of the coronavirus shows that Americans continue to ignore the reality of the pandemic at their own risk.
There have been stories of people celebrating “coronavirus parties” since the outbreak began, including in places like Alabama and Washington state, where the state health department issued a warning against such behavior in early May.
But some experts have warned to digest such cases with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Urban folklorist Benjamin Radford recently recounted that Rolling Stone’s stories about coronavirus parties are probably not true.
“They are a variation on older urban legends of disease, such as the ‘bug hunter’ stories of people trying to get AIDS,” Radford told Rolling Stone, referring to media stories that began circulating in early the AIDS epidemic.
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