When Stephanie caught COVID-19 just before Thanksgiving of last year, her daughter Laurie suggested that she get help.
“She was really not feeling well, and I was like, ‘Just go to the doctor,'” Laurie recalls.
But Stephanie, who was 75 at the time, didn’t go. A few years before, she had been sucked into a world of online conspiracy theories — far-fetched ideas like one claiming John F. Kennedy Jr. is still alive. With the pandemic, it got worse. She became deeply distrustful of the medical system.
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