Cancer survivor Andy Watts, 40, fell seriously ill with COVID in December and spent 10 months in hospital. He tells Sky News that some visitors in his ward believed the virus was a hoax despite his ordeal.
"There were people who didn't believe in the vaccination for a start, then there were people who didn't believe COVID was real.
He was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma - a cancer that affects white blood cells - in October 2019 and was still undergoing chemotherapy when he began shielding. He said his wife encouraged him to have a COVID test and it confirmed his"worst nightmare" as the result came back positive."I knew my body wasn't able to cope with anything like that because it didn't have an immune system," Mr Watts said.After developing a high temperature, Mr Watts was admitted to hospital at the end of December, just weeks before he was expecting to receive his first COVID jab.
Mr Watts, from Bexley, southeast London, said he was initially reluctant to be taken to intensive care because he feared he would not return.
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