{"id":47278,"date":"2021-04-20T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ted-nugent-who-once-dismissed-covid-19-sickened-by-virus\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:52:20","slug":"ted-nugent-who-once-dismissed-covid-19-sickened-by-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ted-nugent-who-once-dismissed-covid-19-sickened-by-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, sickened by virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=427e194d-b542-4609-b10c-b60ae59a5f93&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1280\" alt=\"Ted Nugent revealed he was in agony after testing positive for the coronavirus \u2013 months after he said the virus was \u201cnot a real pandemic.\u201d \u201cI thought I was dying,\u201d he says in a Facebook live video posted Monday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Ted Nugent revealed he was in agony after testing positive for the coronavirus \u2013 months after he said the virus was \u201cnot a real pandemic.\u201d \u201cI thought I was dying,\u201d he says in a Facebook live video posted Monday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Owen Sweeney\/Invision\/AP file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI thought I was dying,\u201d Nugent says in a Facebook live video posted Monday. \u201cI literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days,\u201d adding: \u201cSo I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the \u201cCat Scratch Fever\u201d singer repeatedly uses racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he wouldn\u2019t be getting the vaccine because he claims wrongly that \u201cnobody knows what\u2019s in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nugent, a supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions. He has repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official death count from the coronavirus is inflated.<\/p>\n<p>A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they will probably or definitely not get vaccinated, compared with 12% of Democrats. The seven-day national average of cases remains over 60,000 new infections per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nugent revealed he was in agony after testing positive for the coronavirus \u2013 months after he said the virus was \u201cnot a real pandemic.\u201d \u201cI thought I was dying,\u201d he says in a Facebook live video posted Monday.Owen Sweeney\/Invision\/AP file \u201cI thought I was dying,\u201d Nugent says in a Facebook live video posted Monday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2482,559,4632],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-celebrity","tag-music","tag-rock-and-roll-music"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47278"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}