A US nurse has shared her experience of working among COVID-19 patients who don’t believe the virus is real. Jodi Doering, a South Dakota nurse, tweeted that the nursing staff is often at the receiving end of targeted hate from such patients.

When she thought about the patients, the ones who stuck out were “those who still don’t believe the virus is real.”

“The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA,” Doering tweeted.

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“All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm.”

“They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. 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, comparing her experience to a “horror movie that never ends.”

After her social media post garnered a lot of attention and support, she appeared on CNN’s ‘News Day’ on Monday to talk about how certain COVID-19 patients don’t believe that the virus is real.

“People are still looking for something else and they want a magic answer, and they don’t want to believe that COVID is real,” she told CNN.

According to her, people wanted it to be influenza, pneumonia or even lung cancer. 

Doering recalled that the last words of one of her dying patients were, “This can’t be happening. It’s not real.”

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The US is the worst-hit nation by the coronavirus pandemic, having recorded over 11.2 million cases and 247,229 deaths, as per Johns Hopkins University’s tally.