Woman who filmed coronavirus warning receives online abuse
by Aamna Mohdin from on (#510J0)
Video of Tara Jane Langston, 39, in hospital struggling to breathe was originally posted on WhatsApp
When Tara Jane Langston was hospitalised with coronavirus, she and her family were confronted with a terrible ordeal. And then the trauma was compounded by online trolls who flooded the family's inbox with messages accusing them of a hoax.
Richard Langston, Tara Jane's husband, said unfounded online claims that a widely shared video in which she described her experience was bogus had made the experience even more upsetting. "It made me question humanity," Langston said from his home in Middlesex, where he is self-isolating with his children. "How could people be that negative? It just doesn't make sense."
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