Current Events > Emergency room doctor DIED in his husbands arms because of coronavirus

(+) Yeah! (+)

An emergency-room doctor died in his husband's arms on Tuesday, a week after first noticing symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and after being forced by shortages to reuse protective masks and gowns while treating patients with the novel coronavirus two weeks ago, his husband alleges.

"He loved to help people," Arnold Vargas, Dr. Frank Gabrin's bereaved spouse, told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday. Speaking less than 24 hours after Gabrin died suddenly after waking up unable to breathe, Vargas, weeping, was unable to continue.

Earlier, Vargas told NJ.com that his husband, who worked at East Orange General Hospital in New Jersey and St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Queens, New York, woke up on Tuesday saying: "Baby, I can't breathe." Vargas told the news site that Gabrin reused N95 masks and hospital gowns while treating patients. Both hospitals told NBC New York they were stocked with personal protective equipment.

Gabrin was reportedly on the front lines two weeks ago, when about a week ago he developed symptoms. He was never tested for COVID-19 but had symptoms that were consistent with the disease, NJ.com reported.

That sucks