Doug Ericksen, state senator who fought vaccine mandates, dies at 52

• Washington Republican tested positive for Covid in El Salvador
• Trump supporter opposed pandemic emergency orders
• Harris: White House did not see Omicron coming

Doug Ericksen, a staunch conservative Washington state senator who led Donald Trump's campaign in the north-western state and was an outspoken critic of Democratic governor Jay Inslee's Covid-19 pandemic emergency orders, has died. He was 52.

Ericksen's death on Friday came weeks after he said he tested positive for coronavirus while in El Salvador - though his cause of death wasn't immediately released.