You're in luck, the timing for this makes no sense. And he could have sent tweets while he was "sick" to keep it looking like he was around, he or his staff not doing that makes no sense. He's dead. It took them that long to find a replacement.

when he assumes room temperature let me know.

I'll sticky the post, too.

If he lied about this, does he ever tell the truth about anything?

His gut instinct is to lie first, backpedal second. Fancy dinners especially.