The co-founder and CEO of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network has died at 64 after testing positive for COVID-19 and battling the virus for weeks, the network said.
Marcus Lamb served as the CEO for the network after helping found it in 1993, but more recently, Lamb has been known for vocally opposing the COVID-19 vaccines.
The network shared news of Lamb's passing on Tuesday in a tweet.
"It's with a heavy heart we announce that Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, went home to be with the Lord this morning," the tweet said. "The family asks that their privacy be respected as they grieve this difficult loss. Please continue to lift them up in prayer."
While Lamb was hospitalized fighting COVID-19, his son Jonathan Lamb was filling in for him on the Nov. 23 Daystar broadcast. During the broadcast, Jonathan asked listeners to pray for his father's recovery from the virus.
Lamb's wife, Joni Lamb, also spoke with viewers while by his bedside, saying, "it's kind of like riding a roller coaster."
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"It's like, you'll just be up, and everything's great, and then you have a little lull, and then you come down low, and then you come back up, but from everybody that I talk to — I think that's the pattern," she said.
Jonathan Lamb described his father's battle with the virus as "a spiritual attack from the enemy" to "takedown" his father.
"Pray specifically for his lungs to clear the Covid pneumonia and pray for his oxygen level to continue to be strong and to go up so that we can wean him off of oxygen and bring him home," Joni Lamb said.
Lamb is not the first conservative personality to pass in the recent months of COVID-19 after publicly sharing opinions against the vaccines. Radio hosts Dick Farrell, Phil Valentine, and Marc Bernier all died after contracting the virus.
