Day 157: RIP Nick Cordero

Broadway actor Nick Cordero died Sunday after more than three months in the hospital. He was initially admitted for pneumonia, then diagnosed with COVID-19. PlagueBlog believes he would have been better off sticking with the pneumonia diagnosis, because most of his coronavirus "complications" seem to have been complications of mechanical ventilation. He was only 41, and no underlying conditions or unusual coronavirus symptoms seem to have been reported in his case; under today's less invasive standard of care he might have survived. People's report focuses on his devotedly optimistic wife (also a Broadway actress) and one-year-old son, rather than on the medical details of his case.

The pubs opened up again in Britain on this "Super" Saturday. Many journalists' hands were wrung over the dearth of masks and general holiday attitude, but the police found it a relatively calm night.

On the silly connections front, Fox News reports on the death of a man from an apparently famous 9/11 photograph from coronavirus. At age 60, Stephen Cooper was never in the towers, but was told by police to run away as he approached them with a delivery, and was photographed in flight. He later saw the photo for the first time in Time Magazine. When he died in late March, he was 78 years old, ill, and living in Florida, where his case of coronavirus was initially misdiagnosed as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to the lack of cases and testing there at the time.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up a seventh of a percentage point today.