Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dead from COVID-19

BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) — Louisiana’s newest Republican member of the U.S. House, Luke Letlow, has died from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being he would have been sworn into office.

Letlow spokesman Andrew Bautsch confirmed the congressman-elect’s death Tuesday night. Letlow was 41.

Bautsch said in a statement that the family is asking for privacy. The incoming congressman was elected in a December runoff and was set to take office in January.

He was admitted to a Monroe hospital on Dec. 19 after testing positive for the coronavirus disease. He was later transferred to Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport and placed in intensive care, where he died.

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