Both cases and deaths seem to be falling rapidly. Christmas season testing declines or are we turning the corner?
Hard to tell, the way the local news breathlessly reports every new case, every new death. And, of course, deaths from various causes are being blamed Covid. A lovely lady of our acquaintance - age 97 - died last week and it's been blamed on Covid, which is utter nonsense.
Meanwhile, here's an odd case:
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died Tuesday evening from complications with COVID-19, shaking the Louisiana political world weeks after his election to represent Louisiana's 5th District in Congress as the state's youngest U.S. representative.
Letlow, 41, died at Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport from “complications from COVID-19,†his spokesman, Andrew Bautsch, said in a statement.
Letlow was admitted to a Monroe hospital with COVID-19 symptoms on Dec. 19th before being transferred to the Shreveport hospital and moving to the intensive care unit on Dec. 23rd. ...
He was in critical condition but had recently shown signs of improvement when he "apparently suffered a cardiac event this evening that was refractory to all resuscitation efforts," said Dr. G.E. Ghali, of LSU Health Shreveport.
Ghali previously said Letlow was being treated with the antiviral drug Remdesivir and steroids. Asked if Letlow had any underlying conditions that would have made his death more likely, Ghali said in a text message, "none. All COVID related." ...
MoreHe was a Republican who formerly worked with Bobby Jindal.
UPDATE: it appears they
may be acknowledging he died from the heart attack, not the 'rona.
NY Post
