Anti-vaccine businessman said virus did not exist and died from COVID-19

55-year-old businessman who became a benchmark for anti-vaccines during the pandemic, who sees himself as a disease denier in the United States, has died of infection COVID-19[female[feminine. Marco from Veglia, an Italian residing in the North American country, contracted the virus about two weeks ago and after severe symptoms had to be seriously hospitalized. Some time later he died.

In their social networks, From Veglia He claimed that the coronavirus pandemic was a “conspiracy of the pharmaceutical companies” and during the same campaign he attempted against vaccinations – regardless of which labs or countries practiced them. He lived in Miami and was an expert in corporate marketing, a profession he used to his advantage during the fake news that he published through his various social networks.

Those who communicated his death were his friends and family through the same social networks where the man claimed “the virus is a lie”. One of them, Stefano Versace, written in Facebook: “It is easy to distinguish a man who chose not to be vaccinated and who then dies of the Covid”. But he asked, beyond the latter, to “not point the finger” at someone who is a victim of the disease which has killed more than 4 million people in the world.

At the same time, his friend and also a businessman, said: “It would be harder to wonder how a smart person, a great professional, ends up falling victim to a continuous stream of fake news that invites him not to protect his health. ” From Veglia he was infected two weeks ago: although it started as a normal flu, the situation worsened and he ended up in an intensive care bed. He has never been vaccinated or has taken precautionary measures to avoid contagion.

While the recently deceased Italian denied the existence of COVID-19 and launched messages on networks questioning vaccines, according to the Covid Visualizer site, which keeps track of the different territories, there are over 15 million 740,000 active cases of the disease and over 4 million 260,000 deaths worldwide.