It’s a sometimes fatal disease.
“David Andahl, a Republican candidate for the North Dakota state legislature, won election on Tuesday, but the 55 year old won’t be taking office. Unfortunately, Andahl died of the coronavirus last month.”
“Andahl, who was known as a “Trump Republican,” died of covid on October 5, according a report last month in the Bismark Tribune. Mail-in voting started on September 24, which meant that ballots in the central North Dakota district couldn’t be changed under state law.”

Medicynical note: one of 230,000 COVID deaths that Trump supporters ignore presumably because of the “economy.”
Why? I don’t know. But as I’ve said before money makes people do funny things.