34-Year-Old Man Dies From Coronavirus After Visiting Disney; Healthy Gym-Goer Gives Grave Warning From Hospital Bed as She Struggles to Breathe; and Four Out of Seven Members of the Same Family Die From Coronavirus.
Jeffrey Ghazarian, 34, visited Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida and died from coronavirus just two weeks later, reports TMZ.
He died on Thursday morning in Pasadena after he spent five days hooked up to a ventilator. His sister said, “He suffered a lot and put up a good fight. We will miss our Jeff every day but we are thankful for all the fun, happy memories of the times we had together.”
The timeline for his illness is terrifying. His family says he flew down from Los Angeles to Orlando on March 2 for a work conference, and decided to visit Disney World and Universal theme parks with friends.
On March 7, he developed a cough, coughing up blood the next day. On March 9 he flew back to LAX and immediately checked in to the ER with a high fever. His results came back positive on March 13.
On March 14, after being in self-quarantine at home, he was taken by ambulance back to the hospital and transferred to ICU, where they discovered his lungs were 60-70 percent blocked with pneumonia.
Despite the best effort by doctors who sedated him and used a ventilator in hopes that his lungs would heal, he passed away on Thursday morning. Jeff had a history of frequent bronchitis and asthma as a child that he was able to outgrow, and had undergone surgery for testicular cancer in 2016.
The CDC is now warning that younger people can also be at grave risk from coronavirus.
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Tara Jane Langston, a 39-year-old mother, was rushed to the hospital by ambulance last Friday. There, doctors diagnosed her with the novel coronavirus on Sunday.
While gasping for breath, Langston recorded a video from her hospital bed. She wants to warn others that a similar thing could happen to them. In an interview with MailOnline, she said:
“It’s like having glass in your lungs, it’s hard to explain, but every breath is a battle. It’s absolutely horrible and I wouldn’t want to go through anything like this ever again. I’d been ill for about five days before I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.”
“I’d originally been diagnosed with a chest infection and given antibiotics and advised to take ibuprofen and paracetamol. I was taking about eight ibuprofen a day and they now think that exacerbated the problem.”
“When I was taken into intensive care, they originally planned to sedate me and keep me in intubation, because my body had gone through it all for the best part of a week and I was shattered.”
“Fortunately I was kept awake but needed six liters of oxygen. Now that I’m improving, I’m on one liter.”
Langston is now thankfully recuperating. But in her harrowing video, she warns that coronavirus isn’t attacking just the elderly, or those with underlying health conditions, such as managing afib or other medical concerns.
In the video, she says: “I’m in the intensive care unit and I can’t breathe without this. They’ve had to sew that into my artery. I’ve got a cannula, another cannula, and a catheter. I’m actually ten times better than what I was before… I’ve lost count of days.”
“If anyone still smokes, put the cigarettes down because I’m telling you now you need your f***ing lungs, and please, none of you take any chances. I mean it. Because if it gets really bad, then you’re going to end up here. My body is fighting this so once again don’t take any chances.”
Langston also revealed that before she got sick, she thought that the entire coronavirus scare was a “load of nonsense” that’s “just being hyped up.” She decided to warn others after she found out for herself that no one is truly safe from the virus.
“I just worry that when this virus starts getting worse, they’re going to be swamped,” she said of local hospitals, especially after witnessing the general public still cramming into trains and out drinking in pubs.
“That’s why I filmed myself in the ICU and sent it to my workmates because they were supposed to be all meeting up for a training event and I wanted to tell them not to go as it wasn’t worth the risk. They’d be better off staying at home self-isolating.”
“Whatever restrictions the government has now been put in place should have been done two weeks ago I believe. My story should be a warning to others–you need to take this seriously.”
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A New Jersey family has suffered immensely after a mother and three of her children died after being exposed to coronavirus. Two other relatives now in critical condition.
73-year-old Grace Fusco died after being diagnosed with the virus. Her son, Carmine, her daughter, Rita, and another son, Vincent Fucso Jr. also passed away. They were in their early and mid-50’s.
Roseann Paradiso Fodera, a cousin to the mother, said, “This is an unbearable tragedy for the family. The family’s biggest concern is that we have four members of one family who have passed, two on life support and one stable.”
She explained that there are still 19 others awaiting their test results, and they’re “anxious that their relatives have passed and they don’t know if they’re infected or not.”
The 19 who have been tested include children, parents, and grandparents who are currently in quarantine.
The coronavirus infections seem to have originated from a family dinner earlier this month, The Times reported.
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