Posted on 12/30/2020 7:53:09 AM PST by Enlightened1
Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, who died while battling COVID-19, suffered a heart attack following a procedure, a hospital official said.
The 41-year-old was receiving treatment in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport when he died Tuesday, the Monroe News-Star reported.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor G.E. Ghali confirmed Letlow underwent an operation related to the virus and later went into cardiac arrest.
“It’s devastating to our entire team,” Ghali told the paper, adding that he “had no underlying conditions.”
The Republican had first announced that he tested positive for the virus Dec. 18 and said he was quarantining at his Richland Parish home.
But his health began to deteriorate and on Dec. 19, he was admitted to St. Francis Medical Center, and then eventually transferred to Ochsner LSU Health.
Letlow is survived by his wife, Julia Barnhill Letlow, in addition to his two children, 3-year-old Jeremiah and 11-month-old Jacqueline, the paper reported.
“The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the past days but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected time,” Letlow’s spokesman Andrew Bautsch said in a statement to the Monroe News-Star.
Letlow was set to be sworn in to Congress on Sunday after he won the Pelican State’s 5th District seat in a Dec. 5 runoff race.
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The Gov. is a democRAT, but is anti abortion.
I’m guessing they stuck him on a ventilator.
COVID-19 complications lead to leg amputation for White House security director
Makes sense.
I was wondering what the circumstances were a 41 year old dies of Covid.
He did not die of Covid-19.
It was fake news.
Lying.
“I bet when everything comes out. We will find out he died from the vaccine.”
Thanks for posting this to clear things up, but don’t you go around making things up either.
That is not making things up.
Key part “I bet”
“Key part “I bet”
Yes, but take heed to my point.
I read your post and understood exactly where you were going with it. Covid may have contributed, but it may very well have been a minor contributor. There are no reports that Luke Letlow had ARDS from Covid that I am aware of. There are much more lethal bugs such as Respiratory MERSA, Antibiotic Resistant Tuberculosis and various others that you can pick up at many hospitals. This is not mentioning the most lethal hospital killer of all... negligence and stupidity by doctors and staff.
My wife is a retired nurses and department head, My mother is a retired nurse who taught at a nursing school, and I have 25 years of experience as well transporting the sick and injured to the hospital. Right now the issues people are worried about are completely out f whack with reality,
Governors don’t replace Representatives. Need special election.
I completely agree the fear mongering by the media and government over this illness is insanity... Intentionally induced mass hysteria.
However, for folks here, and many of them, to keep saying someone died of a heart attack it can’t be Covid, is nonsense.
Severe case of Covid, means you are almost certainly suffering from ARDS... you aren’t oxygenating your blood appropriately because your lungs are full of fluid. Just like folks trying to claim they died of Pneumonia means it couldn’t be Covid.
The details of what surgery he had, are missing so its impossible to know.. but if they were trying to clear his lungs and failed and he died of a heart attack a few days later, that’s pretty much a COVID caused death.
The information from this article certainly does not imply that this man did not die from complications caused by Covid... based on the article, he either had direct complications from the surgery, he only needed because he had Covid, or he was in ARDS and had a heart attack.
Either case would be the direct result of having Covid.
I am all for calling out the ridiculousness of classifying falsely things COVID, but at least from what is reported here, there is nothing in the report that suggests this guys death was note related to the fact he had Covid.
If he was having a procedure, that he was only having because he had Covid, then his death is related to Covid. I don’t they were going hey, this guys got a bad case of Covid, but yo u know what, let’s take his tonsils out since he’s already here.
Almost certainly whatever surgery he was undergoing was due to the fact he was suffering from a bad case of Covid. Trying to deny that this is a Covid related death is beyond stretching.
Healty 41 year old with no medical history enters the hospital and suffers a severe case of Covid, emergency surgery is performed to attempt to save his life, but he dies.. but it’s not a Covid related death is absolutely nonsense.
There are plenty of legitimate examples of folks being classified as COvid deaths, but this ain’t one of them.
that should be classified as Covid deaths, that are not.. but this is not one of them
The bad guys have made it clear that they can arrange for a person to have a heart attack. They also can do it remotely. Remember Barnaby Jack
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hacker-death/famed-hacker-barnaby-jack-dies-a-week-before-hacking-convention-idUSBRE96P0K120130727
Don’t be a smart as#. That’s what the newspaper article said.
So the doctor must have given the newspaper the medical files huh?
New rules at Free Republic. You are now allowed to use common sense prior to replying and definitely when challenging the narrative of a duplicitous media.
Yes, I will be a smarta$$ when it’s called for.
This Gov. Edwin Edwards?
KATC News
Posted at 2:56 PM, Dec 26, 2020
and last updated 3:00 PM, Dec 26, 2020
Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is back in the hospital this weekend for non-COVID-related issues, his family said in a statement Saturday.
According to The Advocate, Edwards is “undergoing a battery of tests this weekend at Ochsner LSU Health Medical Center in Shreveport,” and the former governor says he is feeling fine.
His wife, Trina Edwards, says her husband is back for a checkup at the Shreveport hospital, where he was tested two years ago for respiratory and heart issues. He develops pneumonia annually after undergoing heart bypass surgery 24 years ago. The former governor was hospitalized in November for pneumonia.
Edwards was tested for COVID-19 for the third time this month and again tested negative, the statement reads. He was flown from his home near Gonzales to Shreveport on a plane “supplied by Ruston trucking and energy magnate James Davison.”
Read more from The Advocate here.
I am not aware of a common surgical procedure used to clear someone's lungs. I have been present when large needles were stuck into people's chests to drain fluid after we transported people in severe respiratory distress to the emergency room. This was not considered a surgical procedure. The public does not know the relevant details surrounding Luke Letlow’s death. It is quite possible that even his family does not know. If you are old and/or sick Covid can become a serious problem, but for nearly everyone else it is typically more of a nuisance or not even noticed.
We do know that a 41 year old man in good health with no co-morbidities dying from Covid is an extreme statistical anomaly. If you are under 65 and in good health your chances of being killed on a daily 40 mile round trip commute are far greater. We also know that the media and authorities have been engaging in extreme misinformation. There are numerous reasons that a 41 year old man who gets sick can die in the hospital almost none of them have anything to do with Covid. Statistically speaking the chances that Luke Letlow died from Covid and not with Covid are highly unlikely. The most likely cause of a healthy 41 year old dying in the hospital from a heart attack is a previously undiagnosed heart problem followed by some type of medical malfeasance or mistake. Covid wouldn't make the it into the top one hundred causes for someone with Luke Letlow's age group.
You have bought into a convincing narrative, but your speculation is nothing more than that..
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