Conservative YouTube star Lynette Hardaway — the “Diamond” of “Diamond and Silk” fame — didn’t die of COVID-19 as quite a few liberals on social media had (generally gleefully) speculated.
Ms. Hardaway, 51, died of coronary heart illness because of power hypertension, the Related Press reported Monday, citing her loss of life certificates.
“COVID-19 was not listed as a trigger or contributing issue on her loss of life certificates, which was supplied to the AP by the Hoke County Register of Deeds and was signed by a neighborhood physician. No post-mortem was carried out,” the Related Press wrote.
The household had not launched the reason for loss of life.
However for months since a November hospitalization, commentators hostile to the duo had unfold conspiracy theories, a lot of them primarily based on a now-deleted article from November on the Black-news website Blavity.
The Blavity article, saying Ms. Hardaway’s acknowledged hospitalization was for COVID, cited no sources for the assertion, named or unnamed.
Regardless of each ladies having denied that the virus had put Ms. Hardaway within the hospital, the Blavity article was nonetheless circulated extensively within the days after Ms. Hardaway’s loss of life Jan. 8.
Bishop Talbert Swan, an NAACP chapter president, unfold the false info and known as it ironic.
“Lynette Hardaway, aka ‘Diamond’ from the MAGA Trump supporting duo Diamond and Silk, died from contracting what she known as ‘a hoax’ higher often called COVID-19. The irony is palpable,” he wrote barely a day after Ms. Hardaway died.
“So wait I believed Covid was pretend and so far as we all know pretend doesn’t get u sick I imply — proper?” an nameless Twitter consumer gloated over Thanksgiving.
Diamond and Silk had misplaced a few of their social-media entry and their positions with Fox Information for his or her skepticism of official COVID-19 narratives and the vaccines.
