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Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from COVID-19
WDSU ^ | 12/29/20

Posted on 12/29/2020 7:26:06 PM PST by Meatspace

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To: guido911

When did I say this wasn’t awful? I’m not prying into his medical history - I never trust the MSM to report the full truth when it’s about a Republican. I think I deserve the right to be skeptical.


221 posted on 12/29/2020 9:30:24 PM PST by NotSoFreeStater (If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Article quotes his doc as saying “No underlying causes...”.


222 posted on 12/29/2020 9:30:43 PM PST by matthew fuller (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Pr#3)
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To: Mom MD
but it does happen and more than most on this site will admit to

I agree with that statement 100%. Thank you.

223 posted on 12/29/2020 9:31:09 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: FreedomVsControl
Covid does appear to be real

As someone who has lost an immediate family member to COVID, you are correct. It's real.

224 posted on 12/29/2020 9:32:33 PM PST by Troublemaker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Print out.


225 posted on 12/29/2020 9:34:03 PM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: Mom MD

Just as some young healthy people die from flu. Mostly because their immune systems go into overdrive causing a Cytokine storm.


226 posted on 12/29/2020 9:35:38 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: JudyinCanada; gas_dr

You owe her an apology.


227 posted on 12/29/2020 9:36:24 PM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: Troublemaker

I am sorry for your loss.


228 posted on 12/29/2020 9:37:39 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: bella1
Covid attacks the heart as well.

COVID or low blood oxygen?

229 posted on 12/29/2020 9:37:47 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Meatspace

“Data reveal deadliness of COVID-19, even in young adults”
Center For Infectious Disease Research and Policy
University of Minnesota
Brief excerpt: “Even though all-cause mortality due to COVID-19 may not be known for a while, two new studies highlight that 173,300 (79.5%) of excess deaths from March through August were COVID related, with 4,535 deaths occurring from March through July in younger adults ages 25 to 44, or 38% of all excess deaths in that group.

Data from the latter study helped inspire a New York Times editorial by the likely next director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and her colleagues, who tried to dispel the myth that the disease is not deadly in younger adults.

The first study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that almost 220,000 excess deaths occurred between March and August, even after adjusting for a growing and aging US population. The second study, a JAMA research letter, reported that COVID-related deaths in young adults exceeded opioid overdoses, a leading cause of death in this age-group, in 20% of US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regions during the first half of the pandemic.

As the Annals researchers write, though, “Estimating the true burden of COVID-19 will require continued monitoring of excess deaths by cause. Additional non–COVID-19 deaths due to the pandemic will probably occur for many years because of delays in cancer screening, surgery, and other essential health care.”

Excess deaths are the number of deaths above the expected number of deaths, often predicted by past years’ mortality.”
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/12/data-reveal-deadliness-covid-19-even-young-adults


230 posted on 12/29/2020 9:37:49 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

“Impossible. It’s a fake virus. That’s what the kooks say. Right?”

It’s not a fake virus, bit it is a fake pandemic. With fake prescribed preventatives, like masks, 6-foot distancing, school closures, business shutdowns, and staying inside.

It’s a cold. Not even a bad cold if you’re under 60. But people do sometimes die from a cold each year. Just happens.

Around 1 in 100 of all people die from any cause every year, period. Nobody gets out of here alive. Around 1 in 10,000 die from a cold. It’s so normal they just lump them into a group with flu and pneumonia deaths.


231 posted on 12/29/2020 9:37:55 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: God_Country_Trump_Guns

Your calculation is incorrect.

340,000 divided by 20 million equals 1.7% - not 1.2%.

You also need to use the TOTAL infection rate.

The CDC estimates that the TOTAL number of COVID infections is 2X to 4X times higher than the number of confirmed infections (20 million).

If 2X - the COVID mortality rate declines to 0.9%.

If 4X - the rate declines to 0.4%.

There are also important questions about the method the CDC uses to classify COVID deaths.

For instance...

The CDC classifies 100% of COVID + pneumonia deaths, and 100% of COVID + ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) deaths, as COVID deaths.

That is NOT how the CDC classifies influenza deaths.


232 posted on 12/29/2020 9:38:00 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: God_Country_Trump_Guns
Taking the official data at face value, with 20 million Americans infected and 340,000 dead, the death rate is closer to 1.2%

You can't use totals. The death rate is 4-5 times lower than it was in April.

233 posted on 12/29/2020 9:39:41 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Mom MD
"some young people with no comorbidity get very ill and die from this disease. More than you would think"

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Healthy 18-year-old Illinois girl dies of COVID-19
"A suburban high school senior, with no underlying health conditions, lost her life to COVID-19 after just three days in the hospital....On Christmas Day, Sarah was airlifted to University of Chicago Medical Center and died the next day. Her parents were at her side."

234 posted on 12/29/2020 9:39:57 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Meatspace

Actually, he died from complications related to Covid19, after a “heart procedure”. He had no underlying diseases. Sounds like somebody possibly screwed up.


235 posted on 12/29/2020 9:41:11 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing);)
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To: Luke21; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ...

It’s a safe seat. Rat came in third in the election, it was an R/R runoff.

RIP, but I’d remiss in not mentioning that Letlow was the a bit RINO-sounding to me, Lance Harris, the guy he beat, sounded more our style. Letlow went on about working with both sides of the aisle. How he’s dead of Biden’s Chinese virus, very sad.


236 posted on 12/29/2020 9:41:58 PM PST by Impy (George Washington did not concede to King George.)
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To: Meatspace

He died from a heart attack and the picture does not match this one
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/12/29/louisiana-congressman-elect-luke-letlow-dies-covid/4082977001/

Died with not from china virus, and 41 is to young for sure.


237 posted on 12/29/2020 9:42:06 PM PST by Jahoohio
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To: FreedomVsControl
Did his doctor offer him any early treatment? Or was it go home and do nothing.

From what I read, it was the latter.

238 posted on 12/29/2020 9:43:24 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: RummyChick

My brother and sister-in-law have had it for over a week, but we’re refused treatment until results from the long form of the test were finally sent to them today.


239 posted on 12/29/2020 9:44:37 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing);)
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To: HotHunt
That does not mean this man actually died from Covid-19. He could have but not necessarily.

He died of a complication of COVID, namely a heart attack. His heart was healthy before COVID.

240 posted on 12/29/2020 9:44:38 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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