Conspiracy theorist and podcaster Doug Kuzma dies from COVID
A popular podcasting conspiracy theorist who opposed vaccines reportedly died after attending a so-called superspreader conference attended by Alex Jones, Eric Trump and Michael Flynn.
Following 10 days of hospitalization, Doug Kuzma, 61, succumbed to COVID on Monday, according to Vice.
Kuzma posted Facebook photos from the Dec. 11 ReAwaken America rally in Dallas, where he and like-minded attendees appeared maskless and crowded together. He also posted a photo of himself maskless at an airport on his way home from the event.
Days later, the Virginia man said on Facebook that what he thought was his chronic bronchitis had taken a bad turn, but was “headed in the right direction.”
When it was suggested on social media that he get tested for COVID, Kuzma took a hard pass.
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“You must have lost your mind, so they can kill me, and try and give me the jab,” Kuzma reportedly responded to one commenter. “I’ll die at the house before I go to the hospital.”
He was found unconscious at his home on Christmas Eve, then rushed to a hospital where he was said to have been put on a ventilator before dying days later.
One of Kuzma’s associates at FROG News — which stands for “Fully Rely on God” — said the podcast host’s final photo showed him with a “refill of ivermectin.” Despite the mainstream medical community’s insistence that ivermectin is an anti-parasitic medication that isn’t known to be effective against coronavirus, many right-wingers believe otherwise.
Kuzma and his FROG News colleagues have reportedly spread medical misinformation throughout the pandemic, as well as maintaining that the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost by more than 7 million votes, was somehow rigged.
Some attendees who became ill at the event in Dallas theorized they had been attacked with a biological weapon.
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