A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who has appeared on “The Doctors” show died of COVID-19 after contracting the illness when a maskless woman coughed on him while he was giving her a lip injection, according to a report.
Dr. Payman Simoni, 50, was wearing a mask last month as he performed the elective procedure on the woman, who had filled out a COVID questionnaire and had her temperature checked – though she was not tested for the virus, TMZ reported.
She contacted the doc’s office a few days later to report that she later tested positive for the deadly bug, according to the outlet.
Simoni, who went into quarantine, was later hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was placed on a ventilator after experiencing a variety of symptoms, including shortness of breath, according to TMZ.
Sources told the outlet that Simoni was eventually placed in a medically induced coma before dying of a brain hemorrhage on Friday.
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