Anti-vaxxers are convinced that a Tennessee nurse died after receiving her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
Tiffany Dover got vaccinated on live TV in mid-December with a handful of colleagues from CHI Memorial Hospital, but she became dizzy a few minutes later while speaking to reporters and fainted -- prompting conspiracy theories from vaccine skeptics who refuse to believe she's still alive, reported The Daily Beast.
"Why isn't anyone that lives close to her figuring out where her kids go to school or where her husband works or where they live and waiting and trying to snap a picture of her coming or going?!?" suggested one Facebook commenter. "Can someone living in Alabama just take a quick ride over to their place to see what's going on?"
Dover explained shortly after she regained consciousness at the hospital event that she frequently faints due to a medical condition.
"I have a history of having an overactive vagal response, and so with that if I have pain from anything — hangnail or if I stub my toe — I can just pass out," Dover said at the time.
But that explanation, and subsequent updates from the hospital and family members, have failed to convince conspiracy theorists who insists Dover died from the COVID-19 vaccine.
"How much money do they pay you all that you post this?" one commenter wrote in response to Dover's brother-in-law. "She is dead and you know."
The hospital eventually released a 20-second video of Dover surrounded by fellow nurses and holding a sign with the date -- Dec. 20 -- to show proof of life, but anti-vaxxers continued harassing her and her family on social media.
"All of y'all stop acting like your entitled to know anything," said Dover's sister-in-law. "It's none of your dang business. I'm honestly disgusted with people right now. We can't even go on a family vacation for Christmas without being harassed. I'm sick of it. TIFFANY IS ALIVE AND FINE."
