A U.S. Congressman-elect from Louisiana who was 41 years old died Tuesday evening from complications of Covid-19, his spokesman announced Tuesday night.
Luke Letlow, a Republican, was elected as U.S. representative for Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District in a December runoff.
Letlow spokesman Andrew Bautsch confirmed the congressman-elect’s death at Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport on Letlow’s Facebook page.
“The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the past days but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected time,” Bautsch said in a statement. “A statement from the family along with funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time.”
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards urged people in the state to pray for Letlow’s family, and he will order flags to be flown at half-staff on the day of his funeral.
Letlow announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, days later tweeted that he was being treated at a hospital, and on Wednesday his representative said he’d been transferred to another hospital where he was stable in the intensive care unit.
Louisiana’s Congressional delegation, including House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, said in a statement that “we are devastated to hear of Luke Letlow’s passing.”
Source: Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies after Covid diagnosis
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I’ll first say, the medical treatment system in the Shreveport-Bossier Parish area is quite… Divergent. Either one has high quality care, typically associated with one’s medical plan, then there’s the majority of the population.
Add in an illness that his LSU treatment would’ve given far earlier, when it’d have worked, dude got the second class shuffle.
First treatment with COVID-19 involves palliative care, treating symptoms while awaiting tests.
On COVID positive, steroid, heparin and if still at initial symptoms, antiviral (maybe, I remain unconvinced and antibody therapy (either convalescent serum or synthetic antibodies).
He got early stage treatment late,.
If a discussion on treatments is to be, please have a physician be a primary part.
The virus, in severe cases, triggers an immune cascade reaction set, which triggers all manner of mayhem throughout the body and immune compartments, much damage being due to DIC.