20-year-old coronavirus victim was told ‘no need to worry’ by doctors

New York Post ^ | March 19, 2020 | Lee Brown

[SkyDancer]

Sounds like the UK’s NIH.

[frogjerk]

Is this the one who had Leukemia?

[GnuThere]

Um, well - it does make quite a difference if one has undiagnosed leukemia.
This headline made the rounds a couple days ago.

[Bell Bouy II]

If it is he needed a new Dr long ago

[Dagnabitt]

Key element missing from headline: “A day later, blood work showed he also had leukemia”

[Kazan]

A day later, blood work showed he also had leukemia, his family said.

[BenLurkin]

Dunno, but he certainly needed a better barber: https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/francisco-garcia-66.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1

[mmichaels1970]

Didn’t he find out he had leukemia when he went to the docs for treatment?

[LeonardFMason]

Boy the NY Post really sucks right now. The kid had undiagnosed cancer. He did not die of COVID-19.

[mmichaels1970]

Garcia, a youth team coach at Malaga club Atletico Portada Alta, was initially diagnosed with pneumonia before testing positive for coronavirus.

A day later, blood work showed he also had leukemia, his family said. He finally died Sunday, less than a week after he first sought help.

He did. Had to get to the bottom of the article to find that.

[Sicon]

With all the needless, embarrassing panic and criminal economic ruin being rained down on us right now, I’d say we’re ALL “victims” of COVID-19.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

What a pantload that article was!

[stylin19a]

Spain not mentioned in the article. It is mentioned in the article’s “keywords”

[ClearCase_guy]

Sort of reminds me of the old Woody Allen joke.

Woody had a pain in his chest, and was worried, but didn’t want to pay to go to the doctor.
Then he found out that his friend had the exact same pain in his chest.
Woody encourages his friend to go to the doctor.
The friend goes has lots of tests, pays out a lot of money and finds out that it’s nothing.
Woody is thrilled, He’s got no medical worries now, and he saved a lot of money.
He calls his friend the next day and the friend’s wife says that the friend is dead.
Woody is devastated, and worried about his own future.
“Did he suffer much?” he asks.
“Oh, no. It was quick. The truck hit him and that was that.”

[wintertime]

A day later, blood work showed he also had leukemia,
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Leukemia? That’s definitely a major reason he didn’t pull through.

[nickcarraway]

We don’t know what stage it was.

[dougherty]

Poor kid.

[mmichaels1970]

We don’t know what stage it was.

I suppose the media didn't bother to ask before publishing worldwide.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“A day later, blood work showed he also had leukemia, his family said. He finally died Sunday, less than a week after he first sought help.”