The local council for controversial Central, Louisiana pastor Tony Spell is hospitalized in Baton Rouge General Hospital and reportedly suffering from COVID-19 coronavirus.
Jeff Whittenbrink was admitted on Tuesday and is currently on oxygen.
His condition is not improving and he is said to be suffering from a high fever.
Whittenbrink is serving as local council to former Alabama Senator Roy Moore, who is Spell’s attorney in the case against the State’s social distancing dictates that effectively closed his church.
Spell refused to follow the dictate and held services for nearly two thousand parishioners.
The Baton Rouge Advocate reports Whittenbrink attended a press conference and a service at the church on April 3rd and 5th.
Whittenbrink told the newspaper: “I went to Alberton’s twice a day. I went to Sam’s. I went to Walmart. I went to Lowe’s. I used gas pumps. I mean, I just wasn’t careful. God knows where I got it. The bad thing is I might have spread to somebody. I feel bad about that.”
Despite fighting an infection of COVID-19, Whittenbrink says he is still determined to represent Spell and says he’s proud of the controversial pastor’s stand against authority.