According to a report, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who appeared on The Doctors show died from COVID-19 after contracting the disease when a maskless woman coughed on him while giving her a lip injection.
Dr. Payman Simoni, 50, wore a mask last month when he performed the elective procedure on the woman, who completed a COVID questionnaire and had her temperature checked – even though she had not been tested for the virus, TMZ reported.
She contacted the doctor’s office a few days later to report that she later tested positive for the deadly bug, the outlet said.
Simoni, who went into quarantine, was later admitted to 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 haemorrhage on Friday.
“The shock is that he was so perfectly healthy,” family friend Katy Amiri-Younesi told KCAL. “He’s a doctor, I called him when I had COVID. He told me what to do. “
He added, “He was a doctor. And he took all protocols. “
Simoni recently appeared on an upcoming episode of “Gown and Out in Beverly Hills,” performing the same procedure on Patrik Simpson, TMZ reported.
The patient told the outlet that he had been instructed to undergo a COVID test and tested negative beforehand.