Kanye West says he had the coronavirus but peddles unfounded conspiracies about vaccines

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Kanye West said in an interview with Forbes that he had the coronavirus in February.

In the same interview, West also said he's running for president under the advisement of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on "The Birthday Party" ticket with Michelle Tidball, an obscure Wyoming preacher, as his running mate.

West also claimed without evidence that "so many" children who have been vaccinated are being "paralyzed."

"That's the mark of the beast," West said. "They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can't cross the gates of heaven."

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said a vaccine is imperative to getting the US back to a pre-coronavirus normal and has previously pointed toward a problematic growing "anti-science bias" in the US.

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Kanye West, who has announced his intention to run for president of the United States, told Forbes in an interview published Wednesday he had the coronavirus in February.

The rapper, 43, said he suffered "chills" and "shaking in the bed" when he had the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has so far infected at least 2,996,333 Americans and killed at least 131,481, according to data analyzed by Johns Hopkins University. He treated the illness by "taking hot showers" and "looking at videos" that told him how to best treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, he told Forbes. See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Inside London during COVID-19 lockdownSee Also:Fauci says the emphasis on a lower coronavirus death rate, often touted by Trump, promotes a 'false narrative'Kanye West announced on Twitter that he's running for president, but it's too late for him to appear on the ballot in 4 statesFauci says the US is still 'knee-deep' in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic

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