Popular Broadway star Nick Cordero dies from COVID-19 complications

Popular Broadway star Nick Cordero has died at the age of 41 from COVID-19 related complications.

The late actor’s wife Amanda Kloots shared the sad news on her official Instagram page. “My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing, and praying as he gently left this earth,” she told her 438k followers.

Three months ago, the actor was hospitalised and diagnosed with pneumonia but it was later discovered that he had contracted the deadly coronavirus disease. A few days later in the ICU, the entertainer’s leg was amputated.

As soon as it was established that the broadway star was down with the deadly virus, his wife used her Instagram page to share updates about his condition. According to her, it was to let people know how serious and deadly the virus is.

In one of her posts, Amanda revealed that her husband had no pre-existing health conditions. She noted that they do not know how he got the virus.

“He went to the ER on March 30th and intubated on a ventilator on April 1. Since then has he has suffered an infection that caused his heart to stop, he needed resuscitation, he had two mini-strokes, went on ECMO, went on dialysis, needed surgery to remove an ECMO cannula that was restricting blood flow to his leg, a fasciotomy to relieve pressure on the leg, amputation of his right leg,” she said.

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She added that “an MRI to further investigate brain damage, several bronchial sweeps to clear out his lungs, a septis infection causing septic shock, a fungus in his lungs, holes in his lungs, a tracheostomy, blood clots, low blood count and platelet levels, and a temporary pacemaker to assist his heart. He has spent 38 days now in the ICU. This disease does not only affect old people.” Unfortunately, the actor died 95 days later after his wife started sharing her updates. Amanda revealed that he was surrounded by his family as he gently left the world.