Sudden stroke in an otherwise healthy and fit female classmate from high school.
Brain aneurism during routine surgery to remove a benign cyst of a healthy medical charge nurse we worked with.
Sudden heart attack from a former classmate who's family had a history of the same.
A healthy former athlete from school who was a fitness trainer died of Jim Henson's (of Muppets fame) disease within a week of contracting it.
Sudden fatal heart attacks in two ladies who were neighbors and had no history of heart disease.
One guy threw a pulmonary embolism in an ICU bed after a kidney operation, his heart arrested and he died the day after an otherwise successful surgery.
My point is that these unfortunate deaths happen in life. All of these cases I cite above happened years before Covid showed up. And these are just cases familiar to my wife and I's circle of friends. The older you get, the more you realize not everyone makes it into old age. More than a few die prematurely in middle age.
I personally wouldn't put too much emphasis on the corona virus causing this poor congressman's death. It may have been a contributing factor though.
But two surgeries were already successful in dealing with the blood clots but a sudden heart attack caused him to fatally succumb. Many other medical misadventures could have occurred to cause his death, even if he hadn't developed the covid.
Prayers to his family. May he Rest in Peace.
God bless the doctors who are working to save lives like his day after day.
Perhaps the best therapeutic approach of all (although I would recommend using eptifibatide instead of tirofiban).
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368377?term=gp+IIb%2FIIIa&cond=covid&draw=2&rank=1