L.A. County Man Who Died Of Coronavirus Had Visited Disney World And Universal Orlando, Family Says
A Pasadena-area man who on Thursday turn into the second particular person in Los Angeles County to die of coronavirus reportedly visited each Walt Disney World Resort and Common Orlando Resort theme parks in Florida earlier than getting sick and returning dwelling.
In response to social media posts from the household of Jeffrey Ghazarian, 34, he had traveled from Los Angeles to Orlando on March 2 for a convention, and that he stayed afterward to go to Disney World and Common Studios.
“On 3/7 he developed a cough and on 3/eight he coughed up blood. On 3/9 he flew dwelling and went straight to the ER with a excessive fever. A chest X-ray confirmed pneumonia,” his sister Lauren wrote, based on the posts obtained first by TMZ. He ultimately was placed on a ventilator and died Thursday.
Within the social media posts, which have since been deleted, Ghazarian’s sister mentioned her brother had bronchial asthma and beat testicular most cancers in 2016. The Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being confirmed the second dying of “a person of their 30s with underlying well being circumstances from an unincorporated space outdoors of Pasadena.”
Disney and Common closed their Florida theme parks on March 12.
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“Our ideas are with this gentleman and his household,” a Common Orlando spokesperson mentioned in an announcement. “As is all the time the case, we’ll proceed our excessive customary cleansing and sanitation procedures and can take our steerage from native well being officers to make sure the security of our company and workforce members.”
Disney didn’t instantly reply to remark.
As of Thursday, there are 231 confirmed instances of coronavirus in Los Angeles County. Statewide, there have been 675 optimistic instances and 16 deaths.
The dying toll within the U.S. based on the CDC is 150.