Posted at another forum by a member of the official Leslie West Facebook group (not public)
From his cousin Marty Weinstein:
"Mark Thomas-His heart stopped for 30 minutes yesterday. He doesn’t have Covid. He’s been on a ventilator now for two days and his body is shutting down. He’s in kidney failure as well. I suspect the root cause of this was diabetes, it runs in our family and we’ve lost others to it, it a monster to the circulatory system".