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The famous Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, dr. Payman Simoni, died Friday of a brain haemorrhage possibly related to COVID-19. He was 50.
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Simoni, who appeared in the television program ‘The Doctors’, may have contracted the virus from a patient while giving her lip injections.
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The doctor was wearing a mask during the procedure, his longtime friend said.
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Beverly Hills, plastic surgeon, dr. Payman Simoni, died on Friday of a brain haemorrhage after testing positive for coronavirus, his longtime friend Katy Amiri-Younesi told CBS News.
Before his death, Simoni, 50, did a routine lip-filling injection for a patient while wearing a mask, Amiri-Younesi told CBS News. A few days later, the same patient calls to tell Simoni that she tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“He was wearing a mask at all times,” Amiri-Younesi told CBS News. “He was a doctor. And he took all the protocols. ‘
People.com had her temperature taken and was cleaned before her appointment.
After receiving the patient, Simoni received a COVID-19 test on December 6 and tested positive, Amiri-Younesi told CBS News. A week later, his health began to decline, and he had to be placed in a ventilator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center due to breathing problems.
“The shock is that he was so healthy,” Amiri-Younesi told CBS News. “He’s a doctor. I called him when I got COVID. He instructed me to do so. ‘
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City Councilman John Mirisch told Beverly Press that it was a mistake to resume cosmetic procedures in the city.
“We must err on the side of the warning,” Mirisch said. “Nobody needs Botox in the midst of a pandemic.”
He added: “It’s a tragedy if someone has to die because of it. Lip fillers are not worth dying for. ‘
Simoni, a well-known surgeon in Beverly Hills who appeared in the program ‘The Doctors’, was eventually placed in a medically induced coma due to his deteriorating condition. According to TMZ, he died of a brain haemorrhage while in a coma.
According to the county’s health department, there are 11,366 new cases of COVID-19 in Los Angeles this week. Los Angeles County is the first U.S. province to surpass 1 million COVID-19 cases, with a total of 1,014,662 as of Monday.
Mayor Lester Friedman told Beverly Press that elective procedures, typically considered lip fillers, have been allowed under state and provincial guidelines since April 28, provided doctors and patients use their judgment to determine whether such procedures are necessary. is.
‘We specifically did not recommend [cosmetic surgery]”Neither the state nor the province,” Friedman told Beverly Press.
Friedman told Beverly Press that there was no evidence that Simoni contracted the virus during a procedure from his patient.
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