Dr. Payman Simoni, 50, died on January 8 of the coronavirus. He is pictured above with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon died of complications from COVID-19 after a patient who subsequently tested positive for coronavirus coughed at him while receiving an injection in the lip.
Dr. Payman Simoni, 50, died on January 8 of brain hemorrhage after being put into an induced coma when his lungs started to fail.
Katy Amiri-Younesi, a longtime friend of the family, said the death was a ‘shock’ to the loved ones of a father of two.
“The shock is that he was perfectly healthy,” Amiri-Younesi told KCAL.
“He’s a doctor, I called him when I had COVID. He was instructing me on what to do. ‘
The father of two had performed the elective procedure on a woman in December, who had her temperature checked and completed a coronavirus questionnaire, according to TMZ.
The woman without a mask, however, was not tested for COVID-19, but called the doctor a few days later to say she had tested positive for the virus.
Simoni’s friends told KCAL that he felt ‘perfectly fine’ for about a week and quarantined and started showing symptoms.
Payman Simoni, pictured above, died of complications from COVID-19 after a patient who later tested positive for coronavirus coughed into him while receiving an injection in his lip
Simoni’s friends told KCAL that he felt ‘perfectly fine’ for about a week, went into quarantine and started showing symptoms. He is pictured kneeling above
The doctor was taken to the Cesars-Sinai Medical Center when he started feeling short of breath and quickly got worse.
Last May, Beverly Hills city council members voted 4 to 1 to reverse their moratorium on elective surgeries in the midst of the pandemic to conform to state regulations that have just been relaxed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, reported the Los Angeles Times.
The city council argued that residents should be able to receive treatments for medical conditions, such as a weakened heart valve and toothache – although that opened the door to cosmetic surgery.
Councilman Dr. Julian Gold, an anesthesiologist, said at the time that “the butt and breast thing is the smallest part of the conversation.”
Simoni, father of two, is photographed above with his wife
Simoni had recently appeared in an episode of The Doctors, as shown above
Some doctors have chosen to postpone cosmetic surgery in Los Angeles, and it is not clear why Simoni, in the photo above, continued his practice in the midst of the pandemic.
Some doctors chose to postpone cosmetic surgery and it is not clear why Simoni continued his practice in the midst of the pandemic.
The Daily Mail contacted Simoni Plastic Surgery for additional comments.
Friends and family said Simoni was ‘fun-loving and ambitious’ and had recently certified himself as a magician.
In November, Simoni filmed the next episode of ‘Gown and Out in Beverly Hills’ with Patrik Simpson, in which he performed the same procedure, TMZ reported.
Simpson told the outlet that Simoni was also wearing a mask during his surgery – but the two posed for a photo without a mask at a post-op consultation.
The coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles County reached bleak new levels in the early days of the year, when the number of COVID-19 deaths in California reached 30,000 on Monday.
Hospitals in Los Angeles are so crowded that patients on stretchers are being treated in gift shops and parking lots.
Authorities began to encourage people to wear masks even at home, if they regularly go out and live with someone who is elderly or at high risk.
Anger at the restrictions led to a recall movement against Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, who nearly garnered 1.5 million signatures needed to put his career to the vote.
Los Angeles County is an epicenter for the COVID-19 outbreak, responsible for about 40 percent of California-related deaths and a large number of new cases
Ferrer said COVID-19 is still killing someone in the county every seven minutes on average
Some Californians are fleeing to neighboring Arizona, where they can eat and drink in bars and restaurants.
The state announced on Monday that it will broadly expand its efforts with new mass vaccination sites at Dodger Stadium parking lots in Los Angeles, Petco Park in San Diego and the CalExpo trade fair in Sacramento.
By the end of the week, the city of Los Angeles planned to convert its massive COVID-19 test site at Dodger Stadium into a vaccination center to handle 12,000 vaccines daily.
Los Angeles County is an epicenter for the COVID-19 outbreak, responsible for about 40% of California-related deaths in California and a large number of new cases.
Los Angeles County health officials are asking essential workers (photo last month) to use facial coverings inside their own homes in an attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the area where the virus is killing someone out of seven minutes
Barbara Ferrer, director of public health for Los Angeles County, said on Monday that “as there is so much widespread, we recommend that people wear face covers while indoors”
On Monday, nearly 8,000 people were hospitalized in Los Angeles County, which had less than 50 intensive care units available in an area with a population of 10 million, said Dr. Christina Ghaly, director of Health Services county.
Although the county has seen a drop in new cases, director of public health, Barbara Ferrer, said it was probably due to declining exams after the New Year’s holiday. She predicted another increase in cases of people who gathered unsafe during the holiday.
Ferrer also said that COVID-19 is still killing someone in the county every eight minutes, on average.
There is a hint of hope, with new hospitalizations across the state dropping from about 3,500 earlier this month to about 2,500.
Some predictions predicted that hospitalizations would stabilize by the end of the month.