Posted on 03/31/2020 8:38:19 PM PDT by nbenyo
Ben Luderer, the head baseball coach at Cliffside Park and a member of the 2008 Don Bosco Prep team that was ranked No. 1 in the nation, died Monday from complications of the coronavirus.
Luderer, 30, was remembered as a key member of a national championship baseball team and an up-and-coming head coach by his former high school coaches Monday.
“It’s a shocking loss,” said Greg Butler the head coach of the 2008 Don Bosco team and now the athletic director at Demarest. “Even the invincible aren’t invincible. That was a group of guys who could not be beaten, then something like this happens and shows just how vulnerable we all are.
“He was a healthy, strong, athletic, 30-year-old head coach.” ..... LATEST CORONAVIRUS UPDATES FROM NJ.COM
Luderer was a special education teacher at School No. 6 (middle school) in Cliffside Park.
“He is irreplaceable,” said Cliffside Park athletic director David Porfido. “I cried all morning.”
Porfido said he informed players of Luderer’s death via video conference on Monday.
“We all live by rulebooks and manuals, but there was nothing for this,” Porfido said. “When I told the kids there was nothing but silence.”
Luderer went to the hospital last Friday when he felt symptoms consistent with coronavirus, according to Porfido, but he was sent home.
“I was told things went bad on Sunday night,” Porfido said. “He died at his home.”
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Not far away in Bayonne, a 67 year old man and his 27 year old son died on the same day.
It's going to be an ugly few weeks.
Sad. Sounds like the cytokine storms of past pandemics.
So sad!
Prayers up for this YOUNG man’s family.
I wish we could send all of China to Mars - minus the dogs.
Disgusting people.
Probably they’re sending people home too soon because they’re afraid of running out of beds.
Had to look that up. Interesting, had never heard of it.
Sounds like he had an underlying issue and the coroner hasn’t revealed it yet.
“He was a healthy, strong, athletic, 30-year-old head coach.”
What about that statement indicates he had an underlying condition?
Luderer went to the hospital last Friday when he felt symptoms consistent with coronavirus, according to Porfido, but he was sent home.
“I was told things went bad on Sunday night,” Porfido said. “He died at his home.”
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“symptoms consistent with coronavirus” is NOT EQUAL to actually having and dying from the coronavirus. Just sayin’.
RIP.
Why do you think that? From what I can tell this thing can take down totally healthy people like a viper. One day they don't feel well and couple of days later they're gone.
I realize it might be more reassuring to think that there was some other issue, one that we don't have, but not sure that's the case with this monster.
Probably they’re sending people home too soon because they’re afraid of running out of beds.
Deadliest place to be with this virus, is the hospital.
China has blood on its hands. China must pay.
The Spanish Flu one hundred years ago did much the same. However this virus kills mainly the ones with weak immune systems. It will kill some apparently healthy victims but they are finding people with undiagnosed conditions when the look closer. The Spanish Flu killed 600,000+ in the USA and 65 million plus worldwide. They did not even know the cause during the pandemic from 1918 to 1920. We know what is doing this but despite all our scientific advances we still are ignorant about many things.
Not saying it is true in this case but HIV is not being counted as an underlying condition. There may be other autoimmune diseases that don’t get publicized.
I realize it might be more reassuring to think that there was some other issue, one that we don’t have, but not sure that’s the case with this monster.”
Extremely well stated.
“Spot on” would be an understatement.
I have a friend who is a surgeon. They are keeping her home right now.
He shoulda gone back to a different ER on Saturday.
It took me two tries at the same ER to get my appendix extracted, and even the second visit was a close call on the diagnostic side of things. The surgery team asked me why I waited so long to stop by...
These anecdotal reports about an individual death are absolutely useless and tell us nothing about this virus. Just because someone says he was perfectly healthy 30 year old doesn’t mean he actually was. This happens with the Flu sometimes too. Usually turns out there was something else going on
Link isn’t working for me.
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