Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., stands outside Start Elementary School in Start, Louisiana, with his wife Julia and two children after casting his ballot for himself in the runoff election for Louisiana s 5th congressional district, Dec. 5, 2020. | Twitter/ Luke Letlow
A newly elected member of Congress has died after contracting the coronavirus just days before he was set to be sworn into office.
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., died Tuesday, 11 days after announcing that he tested positive for coronavirus. According to the most recent update from Letlow’s Twitter account, posted on Dec. 23, the Congressman-elect had been “transferred from St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, LA to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center in Shreveport, LA.”