Posted on 03/16/2020 5:41:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 21-year-old Spanish soccer coach was killed by the coronavirus while also battling leukemia, according to a report.
Francisco Garcia, a youth team coach at Malaga club Atletico Portada Alta, only received his cancer diagnosis after going to the hospital with symptoms of the virus, the Independent reported.
The coach had been advised to seek medical help after he began experiencing trouble breathing, Spanish newspaper Malaga Hoy reported.
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It’s definitely a combination reason. Cancer hit himmfirst and probably hard, undetected, and then other things moved in, taking advantage of an overtaxed, weakened immune system. He could have had other bacteria and viruses attacking him too that added up.
My point is, I wouldn’t have classified his cause of death as this virus, period.
Very sad.
There are a lot of sick kids out there who are most vulnerable to COVID.
Pray for them.
“Hey! You are NOT a Doctor!”
But he might be a journalist which qualifies him to say anything and expect belief from everyone. Don’t sell him short.
rwood
Well, you know how it is with Leukemia, healthy one day, dead the next. :\
That was dripping with irony and sarcasm, by the way. Or to get hopes up for wishful thinkers.
Has the media bothered to report that the smoking rate in China in men is 50 percent? Combine that with age, no wonder so many have died.
Seems like a normal, healthy 21 year old might not even realize he had the virus...
So every death now, whether from leukemia or car accident, will be because of the virus now. Gotta keep those panic numbers up
RIP.
“Seems like a normal, healthy 21 year old might not even realize he had the virus...”
What does that tell you about the virus????
It tells me that unless one is in a high risk group, one need not worry about it....how many really mild cases of Flu do you suppose there are where one feels more like a mild cold and is out among folks during that season?
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