After Bill Clinton's hospitalization, conspiracy theories have taken off.
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After Bill Clinton's hospitalization, conspiracy theories have taken off.
After news broke that former President Bill Clinton had been hospitalized, conspiracy theories took up like wildfire on the internet.
He was hospitalized to UC Irvine Medical Center on Thursday, a spokesman for the 75-year-old former president said. The infection was not linked to COVID, the official said. On Saturday, he was freed.
According to the spokesman, Clinton reacted well to IV antibiotics and fluids and is "on the mend."
After only two days of therapy, Clinton's white blood cell count had started to fall, according to a joint statement from two of her doctors, indicating that the medication was working as planned.
Clinton had a urinary tract infection, which had migrated to his bloodstream, according to the physicians.
Doctors had given Clinton good news, but conspiracy theorists were still peddling dramatic rumors about her health despite the fact that it was false.
That Clinton's health has been the subject of many theories should come as no surprise. Conspiracies involving the Clintons are not uncommon.
Twitter users claimed that Clinton was dying, citing the fact that he had been transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU). Additionally, Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, has been implicated in the scandal.
"Bill Clinton is in a critical condition and is being treated in an intensive care unit. One user said, "Killary is finished with him." What time would he be dead?
Doctors, on the other hand, said that Clinton was only in the ICU for privacy and safety, not because he needed such high-level medical attention.
QAnon conspiracy theorists believe that all of Donald Trump's opponents were killed at Guantanamo Bay, and others have claimed Hillary Clinton perished months ago.
There's a famous Telegram user named StormyPatriotJoe with a following of over 90,000 people who started publicizing an article from "Q" from 2019 that said Hillary Clinton's health was failing soon.
I predict that Bill and Hillary will start to fall apart in the eyes of the American people. "Q," reads the Q drop.
Right-wing blog the Gateway Pundit, perhaps one of the largest advocates of disproved and misleading claims on the internet, was particularly prolific in conspiracy theories.
Although there was no proof to support the allegation, many commentators were fixated on the idea that Clinton had syphilis, a sexually transmitted illness.
My first thought was, "That really sounds like Syphilis to me!" a highly rated commenter wrote.
No matter what anyone said online, one thing was clear to conspiracy theorists: Clinton did not have COVID because "the elites" had all rejected the vaccination, which they think is what causes COVID in the first place.
It's a fact that Clinton, Carter, Bush, and Obama all had their shots in front of the cameras last year.
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