'I thought this was a hoax': Patient in their 30s dies after attending 'COVID party' | WOAI

'I thought this was a hoax': Patient in their 30s dies after attending 'COVID party' | WOAI

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“Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said ‘I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.’”

Physician Jane Appleby shares the last words of a person in their 30s who died after attending a ‘COVID-19 party’ to catch the virus on purpose. Appleby, a health official in San Antonio, Texas, hopes to raise awareness of the disease in the city, which has 18,000 reported cases. (WOAI News | 2 min read)