A pastor who said the coronavirus pandemic was 'media mass hysteria' has died from the killer bug after attending Mardi Gras.
Landon Spradlin from Virginia, US, suffered complications with double pneumonia and tested positive for Covid-19 when he died last month.
The 66-year-old made the 900 mile journey from his Louisiana home to New Orleans in an effort to 'save the souls' of some of the hundreds of thousands of attendees at the festivities.
Pastor Spradlin, described as a 'traveling musical minister' and 'fine guitarist' acknowledged the pandemic was a 'real issue' but added 'the media is pumping out fear and doing more harm than good'.