Some virus patients denying diagnosis, even in their final moments, says South Dakota nurse

Jodi Doering, an emergency room nurse, told CNN’s Alysin Camerota on New Day Monday morning that she’s seeing many people in her state in denial over their Covid-19 diagnoses, and are often angry in the last moments of their lives when they could be talking to loved ones.

“Even if positive results come back, some people just don’t believe it,” she said, adding that they sometimes will insist it’s something else like the flu, a cold or even lung cancer.

“It’s hard and sad because every hospital, every nurse, every doctor in this state is seeing the same things. These people get sick in the same way, you treat them in the same way, they die in the same way. And then you do it over again,” Doering told CNN. “It just makes you mad and sad and frustrated.”

Doering wants people to recognize the cost and the severity of this virus in South Dakota and take steps to protect themselves so that they don’t end up in the hospital, where “it might be too late.”