An anti-vaxxer has died of Covid-19 after posting a harrowing video on Facebook Live to encourage other people to get their jabs.
Mike Jonesbatch refused to have a coronavirus vaccine but tested positive for the disease last month.
The man, from Colorado in the US, was admitted to hospital, from where he filmed videos on Facebook to document his illness.
In the caption of a video published on September 11, he wrote he could not breathe by himself for more than three seconds and had to rely on machines at all times.
He said he could not drink, eat or sleep, as he explained: "Just a matter of time y’all before everything just goes and shuts down."
Mr Jonesbatch added: "This is what Covid is doing. Killing people."
The patient published another video two days later, as his condition deteriorated.
In the clip, a nurse can be heard telling him they need to put him on a ventilator as his lungs were shutting down.
The man said: "I'm shutting down, I'm dying."
The nurse told him: "I just saw your mum, we're going to bring in an iPad so you can talk to her. She's here with your daughter too."
Mr Jonesbatch struggled to reply to her, but said: "Okay."
His mum encouraged him to listen to the nurse and do as doctors said, as she warned him: "Just do it, otherwise you're not going to make the next half an hour."
She added: "I love you."
Mr Jonesbatch's aunt confirmed he died in a Facebook on October 4, Yahoo News reports.
Last month, a right-wing radio host who called himself a “religious fanatic” and told people not to have the Covid vaccine died with the virus.
Bob Enyart, 62, was a Dever Bible Church pastor in the United States and claimed pro-lifers should refuse the Covid vaccine as he claimed it was tested on aborted babies.
Enyart had told listeners to his radio show to not take the vaccine to “further increase social tension and put pressure on the child killers.”
He was a spokesman for the American Right to Life organisation which has stood against abortion for 28 years.
