30-year-old dies after Texas ‘COVID party,’ thought coronavirus was a hoax – WABC-TV

SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio doctor said one in every of her clinical institution’s patients, a 30-year-customary man, died after attending a so-known as “COVID birthday celebration” — a weird and wonderful model where young of us intentionally birthday celebration with any individual who’s contaminated.

Dr. Jane Appleby, chief clinical officer for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Kid’s Hospital, said the affected person thought the coronavirus pandemic modified into a hoax.

“He thought he modified into young and he modified into invincible and would now not gain affected … One amongst the issues that modified into heart-wrenching that he said to his nurse modified into, ‘I beget I made a mistake,'” she said.

Many who help “COVID birthday celebration” are competing to be conscious who can retract the first. Throughout occasions reported in Alabama, some college students even gambled money to present to the “winner,” the one who catches COVID-19 first.

Appleby said she is seeing increasingly more coronavirus patients of their 20s and 30s. She said she shared the story now not to fear of us, nonetheless to make certain they keep in mind the actual fact that the virus can relish an impact on someone.

On Friday, Texas surpassed 10,000 hospitalized patients for the first time, capping a week of grim markers that furthermore saw the negate exceed 10,000 recent cases in a single day. And it has been the deadliest week of the pandemic in Texas, with 95 recent deaths reported Friday.

“The tsunami is right here,” said Hidalgo County Pick Richard Cortez, the tip respectable in a single in every of the largest counties on the Texas-Mexico border.

The Associated Press contributed to this document.