Anti-Vaxxer Nurse Who Claimed Vaccine Kills People Dies Of COVID-19

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The anti-vaxxer had died of respiratory distress caused by COVID-19
He and his wife had been vocal about their anti-vaccine stance on social media
Social media users flooded the couple's posts urging others to stop listening to vaccine misinformation

An Oklahoma nurse who claimed that COVID-19 vaccine kills people died of the virus on Oct. 19.

Steve Shurden, 58, had battled COVID-19 for three weeks before dying of complications in October. Despite his death, his wife Teresa said she wasn’t regretful that her husband chose to remain unvaccinated.

Shurden was first admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 on Sept. 28. His condition appeared to improve in early October before it rapidly deteriorated. He was briefly taken off the ventilator but later died of COVID-19 complications after he experienced respiratory distress, according to The Daily Mail.

Before he tested positive for COVID-19, Shurden had purchased a new touring RV, with the aim of traveling around and protesting “healthcare genocide,” the report said.

In the months before his death, Shurden had written poetry about “plandemic” and healthcare genocide” and shared them on his Facebook page. He and his wife, who were both anti-vaxxer nurses in Tulsa, had also been very vocal about their anti-vaccine stance on the social media platform.

“These jabs are a weapon and this is their plan. They want all the riches and to eliminate man.” Shurden wrote in an August post. “Wake up all you people, this is your last call. If you stand with the left, you are going to fall.”

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In the same month, Shurden also shared about the passing of his friend named Hector. His friend had also refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when he died of the virus. However, Shurden blamed “healthcare genocide” for his friend’s death.

In July, Teresa also shared a misinformation post where Israeli researchers Haim Yativ and Dr. Seligmann alleged that the Pfizer vaccines killed 40 times more people than the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Teresa had also shared other COVID-19 misinformation, including articles with headlines such as “Antibodies Are Probably Better Than The [Pfizer] Vaccination” and “Our Organization Is Run On COVID Money Now.”

Following Shurden’s death, many flooded his and Teresa’s social media posts urging others to stop listening to and spreading vaccine misinformation. Shurden shared three children with Teresa, whom he was married to for 41 years before his death.

The U.S. confirmed 46,252,795 COVID-19 cases and 750,424 deaths as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University.