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Back in with severe double pneumonia.

Damn, I noticed he was ailing on Monday! That was fast.

My Advent Avalanche pick Martillo Roldan dead at 63 from COVID.

Actually I think the Reaper is directly teasing the DL now. There will be other 3 or 4 hospitalizations of people on the list and none of them will die. Then, with all hopes lost, there will be a relatively surprising death to break the record.

Heart failure. Not in danger of life and expected to be discharged soon. From the accounts it seems episodic and not congestive.

Seemingly indestructible Edwin Edwards discharged after two days spent in hospital with "a bad cold" (no, not the COVID).

In a year that has been awful for Somali Prime Minister, 90-year old Omar Arteh Ghalib is reported to be ailing and likely bedridden.

Thank you. Not the age she claims obviously.

To my defense, Bhanwarlal Meghwal is now dead.

I'm convinced she died off radar. Anyway she just disappeared.

Good riddance to the old paedo.

One Shawkat Ali was a Bangladeshi writer and died in 2018 aged 81. Another Shaukat Ali is a Pakistani singer who gets critical with liver issues once in a while.

Improving.

Sure it's the same guy?

Psychologist Lawrence LeShan dead at 100. Yet another 1920 born with no staying power.

James Watson is not a racist and you are a bunch of snowflakes. I hope he lives to 130 just to piss you.

Resting comfortably on life support, according to TMZ...

Tommy Lasorda in ICU, but "resting comfortably".

Actually it was not his intention to announce Clemence's death.

And indeed he gets the BBC obit.

Diego Sinagra, or Diego Maradona Jr., hospitalized with COVID-19 while Naples is experiecing a huge COVID outbreak.

Welsh chemist John Meurig Thomas dead at 87. Remarkably one of the pioneers in the study of heterogeneous catalysts, mainly via electron microscopy, ESCA (XPS/UPS), neutron diffraction (neutrons interact with nuclei distribution, which is a collection of Dirac's deltas in direct space, therefore its Fourier transform gives a constant in reciprocal space, implying the structure factor does not decay with Bragg's angle like in XRD diffraction) and mainly Magic Spin Angle (MAS) NMR. He was not the inventor of these techniques, but applied them in very original way. Heterogeneous catalysis is a central concept in green chemistry, though now the current approach is to immobilize on a surface homogeneous catalysts, using their activity and the long lifetime typical of hetereogeneous catalysts. Sadly, no low brow version available

Very dodgy sources reporting Al-Zawahiri dead. Bullshit, IMHO, but you never know.

The sense is Hornung died 14 days after that post...

Sidney Cooke is still going too, by the way.