A Los Angeles EMT on a flight to LAX tested coronavirus negative after providing CPR to a man who died of COVID-19, according to reports.
EMT Tony Aldapa was on an arrival flight in LAX when a 69-year-old passenger had a cardiac arrest. Aldapa provided CPR, but the passenger died.
A coroner found that the passenger had died of COVID-19, but Aldapa tested negative for the virus, FOX LA reported.
The passenger’s wife started telling people that her husband had had symptoms of COVID-19 before the flight, and other passengers were outraged to discover that the man had been allowed to board the plane.
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Aldapa says he would have provided the care even if he knew the patient was infected. He has since developed a cough and other symptoms of COVID-19, but the test was negative on Tuesday.
“It was kind of second nature to see someone in a bad place, you try to get them out of the bad place,” Aldapa told CBS Los Angeles while in quarantine. “There were three of us who were basically doing chest compressions, probably about 45 minutes.”
“I’m feeling a lot better,” added Aldapa.
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Adalpa served in the Navy for eight years before his current profession.