I have an MA in Healthcare Ethics & Law and have written/taught on applications to care of older people but that illicit video on Facebook of uninvited visitors trying to take a man with Covid-19 off oxygen and iv treatment and get him home raises a Q for me re mental capacity
If we are talking about his decision specific capacity regarding the specific decision to go home without further treatment against medical advice - there is the potential issue of undue influence (people standing over him, badgering/threatening the medical team) but..
my Q is more about the legal test for capacity

He said on that clip that he did not believe Covid-19 was real/existed (even though he had Covid-19 pneumonia and was on HMU very sick with it)

So can you "believe" "understand" & "weigh" the info if you don't believe it?
i wonder if there have been any test cases already re decision specific mental capacity in people with demonstrably false beliefs and serious misunderstandings based on disinformation about Covid
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