The family member of a 34-year-old man died in California after testing positive for the CCP virus two weeks ago after visiting Walt Disney World in Florida.
“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,” his sister told the news outlet.
About 12 hours before, the family wrote that Ghazarian was “stable and hanging in there” before his health apparently took a turn for the worse. Other posts detailed how his family was trying to obtain the antiviral drug remdesivir to combat the virus.
Ghazarian’s sister confirmed his diagnosis on March 14, saying he tested positive for the virus earlier in the month before he was taken to intensive care.
“He has pneumonia and his lungs are blocked so they’ve decided the best path forward is to intubate,” a Facebook post said.
His family told TMZ that he flew from Los Angeles to Florida on March 2 for a work conference but later visited Disney World and Universal Studios before both parks shut down. On March 7, he started suffering from a cough and then coughed up blood before flying back to Los Angeles, where he was taken to the emergency room with a high fever.
Older adults and people with underlying health problems are most at risk of succumbing to the CCP virus, researchers have said.
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