A Woman In Her Thirties Died Of COVID-19 On A Plane

[UpInArms]

A woman in her thirties died of COVID-19 while she was on a plane about to take off from Arizona to Texas in July, officials said Sunday.

The woman — who was only identified as a resident of Garland, Texas — died while the plane was still on the tarmac in Arizona, Dallas County official Lauren Trimble told BuzzFeed News.

It is unclear if the woman was aware that she had COVID-19 at the time of her death, and officials did not identify which airline the plane belonged to.

Before the woman died, she had trouble breathing and was given oxygen, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins told NBC 5 Dallas–Fort Worth. She also had underlying high-risk health conditions, officials said in a news release Sunday.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/texas-woman-died-of-covid-19-on-a-plane

Dallas County Reports 554 New Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases 592 Total Cases Reported Today Including 38 Older Cases and 38 Probable Cases

 A woman in her 30’s who was a resident of the City of Garland. She expired on an interstate airline flight, and did have underlying high risk health conditions.

[Leghorn21]

1. Oh man, this sounds exactly like some of the videos we saw coming out of Wuhan in January-

people were just collapsing and dying on the streets, on subways...an article at the time said that people’s oxygen levels were dropping really fast and the people didn’t even know it, and then they just - died.

RIP to this woman, and condolences to her family and friends

[Celerity]

3. Those were fake videos, the most famous one was a drunk man and from Thailand

[Lucinda]

2. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. There is something a bit off about this story.

If she was so sick she was on the verge of dying, what the fuck was she doing getting on an airplane?

It feels as if this story is intended to suggest that Covid-19 can move extremely quickly and kill very fast. But this woman had "underlying high-risk health conditions" which is probably the most salient point of the article. I really think those underlying high risk health conditions ought to be named, rather than being coyly unmentioned.

A while back I saw the names of two young women who'd died of Covid. Since their names were published, I decided to Google them. They were both clearly very overweight, probably obese. And while it might be all too easy to accuse me of some kind of weight shaming, the truth is that being obese is a huge risk factor.

So for all of us who are merely overweight, let alone obese, now is a very good time to start losing weight.

[pnwmom]

8. There is something a little off about your response.

For some reason, you were driven to proving to yourself that some important condition, besides Covid, must have caused the death of this young woman.

Everyone, including those who think they are in peak physical health, should take very seriously the possible risks of getting Covid. Even healthy, non-obese young people have died from this terrible disease.

As far as the weight factor goes, despite this one case, research shows that obesity increases mortality for MEN but not for women.

Among women with the illness, body mass index — a measure of body fat based on height and weight — does not appear to be independently associated with an increased risk of dying at any age, the authors said, possibly because women carry weight differently than do men, who tend to have more visceral and abdominal fat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/health/covid-19-obesity.html

[JCMach1]

5. This was my experience with Covid pneumonia

From normal oxygenation to crash within the space of a few hours.

If I didn't have an oximeter, I could have easily died before I got to hospital.

[Midnight Writer]

6. I wonder if the altitude had an effect.

I have a friend whose legs swell when she flies.

[soothsayer]

10. Good point, but it said it hadn't taken off yet

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Anyone doing contact tracing?

Nothing in the article about others on the plane(s) or airport(s). She could have exposed dozens and may have been asymptomatic.

I'm sure this is a horrible shock to her family.

RIP to this victim of the Trump virus......

[whistler162]

11. A tad late... happened in July

[BainsBane]

9. Did you notice the first comment?

The snowflake doesn't want the paper reporting stories because it "scares" people.

[Hugin]

12. KnR