and vaccine bogus blp he proclaimed. that was early july. a few weeks later, he was in the hospital dying from covid-19. >> he told me this pandemic ain't no joke and he said you need to get the shot and he told me he wished he had. >> reporter: the statistics that more than 600,000 americans have died from covid hadn't swayed him or her. why did it take dick ferrell dying from covid for you to say i'm taking it? >> there is a pandemic of misinformation out there, and i think that there is no truer thing ever was said. >> reporter: and didn't dick ferrell add to that misinformation? >> yeah, he did. >> reporter: but she is sharing his last words to her hoping that they resonate. >> just a whole bunch of people that said because of dick i went and got it. so hopefully he did some good in the end. >> reporter: ferrell's story is not an anomaly. two week after his death, talk