Posted on 03/19/2020 12:33:23 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A 34-year-old man has died in California after testing positive of coronavirus just days ago, and 2 weeks after visiting Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida ... TMZ has learned.
Jeffrey Ghazarian from Glendora, CA, died Thursday morning at a Pasadena hospital after spending 5 days hooked up to a ventilator and battling for his life ... according to his family.
His sister says ... "He suffered a lot and put up a good fight. We will miss our Jeff everyday but we are thankful for all the fun happy memories of the times we had together."
Jeff's timeline regarding his COVID-19 infection is terrifying and should be eye-opening for people of all ages. According to his family, he flew from L.A. to Orlando on March 2 for a work conference, but stayed a few extra days to visit Disney World and Universal theme parks with friends.
We're told on March 7 he developed a cough, and the next day he coughed up blood. He flew back to LAX on March 9 ... and immediately went to the ER, where he also had a high fever.
The family says a chest x-ray confirmed Jeff had pneumonia, and he was tested for COVID-19 and sent home with fluids and antibiotics and instructed to self-quarantine until he got the results back.
We're told the results came back positive on March 13, and Jeff was provided a portable oxygen meter to keep an eye on his levels ... which took a turn for the worse that afternoon.
On March 14 he was taken by ambulance to the hospital and quickly transferred to the ICU when it was discovered his lungs were 60-70 percent blocked with pneumonia. Doctors decided the best path forward was to sedate and intubate, hoping a ventilator would help his lungs heal.
Sadly -- and despite the family claiming he was approved for antiviral meds -- he took a turn for the worse and never got the medication in time ... and passed away Thursday morning.
It appears Jeffrey was an at-risk patient. He had a history of asthma and frequent bronchitis as a child, though he outgrew that. He also had beat testicular cancer back in 2016.
The CDC now says young people can also be at grave risk ... and this underscores the danger.
He was 34.
RIP
Tough and aggressive attorneys are waiting to take their call.
Maybe IV antibiotics, and the reporters misunderstood.
Not sure what antibiotics can do against a virus, though.
Thank you for posting that, but the FluBros will never admit that they are wrong.
I'd love to get a confirmation on this from Freepers who know more about it than I do.
So this poor guy would have died if he’d just caught the flu, right?
Do you know?
At both airports.
I know several. Weirdos.
Bingo! That fact alone makes this opportunistic killer virus a serious matter.
Noticed that. People keep celebrating “underlying medical condition” to ease their internal panic. Guess what else is an underlying medical condition with this virus? Life.
As someone who has both of these, the teenage cancer was probably what killed him. He didn’t have much of a normal immune system would be my guess.
Boy you are on the front lines here .
The drug used to treat Malaria has been effective against the China virus .
Denial of what? 157 deaths, 11,000 infected in the US as of today. In a country of 350 million people.
“So this poor guy would have died if he’d just caught the flu, right?”
Possibly. Especially if he was on an immune suppressing drug.
I was being extremely sarcastic. Dripping even.
It seems I should have employed the old
/S
TMZ is the premiere gutter-crawling internet rag.
He had leukemia
Sounds like the conference was only a few days if he visited Disney later that week. Coughing by the 7th, coughing blood on 8th, flies home and seeks medical help (for the 1st time) on 9th, deteriorates/hospitalized/ventilated on 14th, passes on 19th, about 2 weeks after first symptoms.
Possibly. He was on chemo
Screw you? Geez...
I said RIP first thing. Nothing against him or people with asthma. One of my sons has asthma. My point was the headline was sensational in order to get clicks. It was deliberately misleading.
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