,According to this story, Pressley was moved to the ICU three weeks ago, but as of Friday, August 13 he has been put on a ventilator to combat COVID induced pneumonia. Update 8/19/21: Died.
He posted on August 13:
As a SC GOP leader, Pressley's conspiracy theory viewpoints are well known. He uses social media to push his viewpoints almost daily. Here is a small sampling of his posts on COVID-19, vaccines, and masks before he contracted COVID:
Give me liberty or give me death? Update: death it was.