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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 8, 2021

Rep. David Byrd is unable to talk and continues to receive physical therapy after being on a ventilator for nearly a month, a family member posted on Facebook this week. The Republican state lawmaker from Waynesboro was hospitalized in December and went on a ventilator that month. He has stopped giving public updates on social media, but WPLN News obtained an update written by his sister: “His body [is] so weak…he can’t do anything without assistance,” she wrote. “As I’ve said before … David has a long and tough road ahead of him. He isn’t even aware that several of his friends, family and constituents are going through the same thing he is.”