It's probably why they fake it. They can get green screen footage and make sure to cut out people informing them of their fakeness, then have a reporter live with the prerecorded green screen footage. It's a good way to keep the truth from coming out to defeat their narrative.
If he had only taken the cheap drugs and got better and tweeted about the medicines that got him better only costing $50... That would really have ruffled their fragile emotions