Embarrassment is a big cause of death for anti-vaxxers in the US and UK. They don't to hospital because they would have to acknowledge it's all real. So it could be that.
Leslie Lawrenson was a lawyer and Cambridge graduate, who posted until the day before his death on social media that the pandemic was all rubbish.
Robert David Steele just died of Covid in the US. He was much quoted on InfoWars and here on HotCopper, saying Covid was a hoax. He was taken to hospital, which was hugely embarrassing for his followers. So after he died they have started a new conspiracy that the hospital killed him.
(Just google their names for links to those stories. Dozens of links.)
