Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies of Covid-19 at 41

And yet people will continue to say “but only 0.x% of people die”.

To add to this - I have heard people say, "There is just more testing being done, which is why you have more positives."

I personally needed a Covid test yesterday when I had a number of symptoms. I live in the liberal / Democratic state of Washington, where most of the public officials have taken Covid seriously. To my horror, I discovered it was VERY difficult to get a Covid test. I searched online for facilities that did testing, and called 10 of them. Most of them either put me into eternal hold or told me I wasn't an existing patient. Finally, I drove to a Walgreens after being told by a rep that I would be tested there. Nope, pharmacist refused. Finally, I went o a private testing company. I spent 4-5 hours calling and driving just to get this done.

Imagine how many people are quitting sooner than I did and actually have it.

The reasons to wait for the vaccine are very different (and legitimate) than the reasons not to wear masks.

The vaccines seem to be causing serious side effects. People are going into anaphylaxis (at higher rates than usual) with the vaccines. Bell's palsy, 105 degree fevers... This isn't like the annual flu shot, or getting vaccinated for measles, where you get the shot and that's it.

Holding off on vaccinations for SARS-COV-2 is not at all the same as the stupidity of not wearing a mask.

Given he leaves behind a baby and a toddler, and just ran an election campaign, an underlying condition is probably significant fatigue.

This is too terrible.

Have to say, there's a decent number of photos on his Twitter feed of him doing campaign events with folks who don't have masks on (though it looks like he himself was consistently wearing a mask as of late). It might be that he personally wasn't a mask denier, but the Republican base has often taken mask wearing as "weak" or "cowardly," and he felt obligated to not require a mask at these events to not alienate his base.

I can't help but think of the ol' "I never thought the leopards would eat _my_ face" tweet: https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736?lang=...

He looks obese to me with a big gut. Could be visceral fat.

> I haven't seen mention of his underlying conditions. Very few healthy 41-year-olds have succumbed.

I think that talking about underlying conditions is pointless. Fewer people without any underlying conditions have died but that doesn't really matter. You still can die from it.

He seems to have been doing lots of public events without wearing a mask. Photos are making the rounds on Twitter, e.g.: https://twitter.com/EvaMcGreggor/status/1344133556461731841?...

It's not a mystery how he caught it.

>LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor G.E. Ghali said Letlow died from a heart attack following a procedure related to the infection

There's your underlying cause. Does anyone have any idea what "procedure" may have been attempted here?

The quoted person says he had none.

It only takes one contact:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/covid-coronavirus-vict...

He died from complications of it. So yes, he died from it.

If we didn't do it like that, pretty much no one would die from AIDS, people would just die of, let's say, pneumonia or some other opportunistic infections.

I agree with you as the media has been treating the whole thing pretty badly but if you end up at the hospital because of COVID and you die there, COVID brought you there...

How can people like you still exist and persist with their narrative of downplaying the pandemic?