St Luke’s Boise Medical Center, where Paul Russell was treated. Google Maps Paul Russell told the Idaho Statesman he was a «conspiracy theorist» until he was infected. He was hospitalized, can no longer work, and said he will need oxygen for the rest of his life. A man who thought the coronavirus «would disappear the day after the election» was hospitalized for more than two weeks with the virus and said he will now need medical oxygen for the rest of his life. Paul Russell, 63, from Boise, Idaho, told the Idaho Statesman: «Before I came down with the virus, I was one of those jackasses who thought the virus would disappear the day after the election. I was one of those conspiracy theorists.»