George Santos claimed to be one of the first people in the US diagnosed with COVID-19.

[Demovictory9]

https://news.yahoo.com/george-santos-claimed-one-first-121344222.html

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His descriptions of the severity of his illness have also changed gover time, per The Daily Beast.

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The first case of COVID-19 in New York was confirmed on March 1, 2020, and Santos claimed in a conservative podcast that he became symptomatic with the virus just over a week later.

"Unfortunately on the 9th of March I became symptomatic with what we all know now very well, COVID-19 a.k.a coronavirus, commonly known as the Chinese flu," he said. "On the 11th I ended up in the hospital. It was really bad, fever, body aches."

Santos said he was taken to a hospital in Queens, New York, by ambulance and spent around five hours there in isolation. He said he then had a high fever and hallucinations for several days, ultimately testing positive on March 14.

The Republican said he tested negative on March 26. "So, I'm free, coronavirus free, so they're calling me a survivor," he said. "I don't know if I really survived anything. It's just flu."



However, later retellings of his experience, both in terms of severity and timeline, appear to be at odds with what he said on the podcast, The Daily Beast reported.

[underpants]

1. His whole story appears to be a hallucination

🤪

[TygrBright]

2. LOL. "Georgie Gump" has done EVERYTHING! n/t

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. He's not really "George Santos". It's Bill Brasky!!

[MANative]

4. I'm thinkin' about the old SNL bit...

"Yeah, that's the ticket!"

Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan, World's Greatest Pathological Liar:

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Of course. And due to his superhuman immune system,

blood samples were sent to Pfizer and all other firms working on a vaccine. With his amazing cells as a blueprint, they were able to reduce the development time considerably. (They also discovered that his Precious Bodily Fluids will also cure, and defend against, all known types of cancer. But that story is for another day...)

[Demovictory9]

6. He has said that he went thru chemo for a brain tumor

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. I wonder if that was before or after he had to perform

emergency appendectomies on three of his crew while piloting the Enola Gay towards Hiroshima.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. You Mean He Left Out The Part...

...where gave Oppenheimer direction on running the program? Shocking!

[Kingofalldems]

7. He landed at Omaha Beach on D Day as well.

[MiHale]

8. He's getting to be quite the polished liar...

Matter of fact if we don’t watch out he’ll be President someday, it is the first requirement for repubs.

[Initech]

9. Why does that scene from Airplane where Leslie Nielsen's nose grows come to mind?

[Richard D]

11. Him being the first person with Covid-19 . . .

. . . allowed him to be the person who discovered it and created the vaccines! All of them!!!

[tanyev]

12. Was he born a poor black child?

[MagickMuffin]

14. And my Mother won the Kentucky Derby finished first, beat out Secretariat

Champagne for everyone!

[PCIntern]

15. And then he invented the vaccine!

Jesus Christ this guy sounds like a fugitive from a Monty Python skit. “I can borrow through an elephant” I wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare and my wife and I wrote the sonnets”.