Pictured, patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Televangelist Marcus Lamb died of COVID-19 complications on Tuesday morning. It's since become the second-largest Christian network in the world, reaching more than 2 billion people worldwide.
Marcus founded Word of God Fellowship in the early 1980s and created Daystar Television Network in the late 1990s. Newsweek reached out to Daystar Television Network for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication. Lamb, according to Joni Lamb, was diabetic, which made him a high risk for becoming seriously ill from COVID-19 and the 64-year-old was just on the cusp of being considered high risk because of his age.įranklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, also posted that Lamb died of COVID-19 complications and his death came about a week after his friend, Perry Stone, asked for prayers for Marcus, who he said was battling a "severe case" of COVID-19. However, Marcus' wife, Joni Lamb, confirmed her husband died from COVID-19, saying that he had been hospitalized after his oxygen dropped and alternative treatments proved ineffective. Marcus Lamb, a televangelist and founder of Daystar Television Network, has reportedly died of COVID-19 after maligning vaccines and allegedly taking ivermectin to prevent infection.ĭaystar Television confirmed Lamb's death on Tuesday, although the network's announcement didn't mention a cause of death.