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A 30-year-old Texan deserves a Darwin award (which recognises those individuals who have contributed to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool) for attending a ‘covid party’. According to Dr Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, the patient looked at his nurse, just before he died, and said “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not”.

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