The sad story of the sceptic who died from Covid

Joe McCarron was so ill he could not breathe, yet a shadowy group talked him into leaving hospital, Rodney Edwards writes

Joe McCarron

Rodney Edwards

Covid-sceptic Joe McCarron didn’t believe the disease would kill him. He was wrong. Blinded by Covid conspiracy theories, the 75-year-old allowed a group to remove him from the intensive care unit at Letterkenny University Hospital in Co Donegal under the pretence they were “saving his life”.

He would not listen to doctors who told him he could die. Today he will be buried in a cemetery miles from the home he shared with his grief-stricken wife Una.