61-Year-Old Patient Is First to Die in Wuhan Pneumonia Outbreak
- Man died after infection with newly identified coronavirus
- Patient, 61, was a regular customer of Wuhan seafood market
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Doctors in central China used sophisticated life support equipment to try to save a 61-year-old man infected with the newly identified virus that caused him to develop severe pneumonia.
The patient, who died late Jan. 9, failed to improve after infection-fighting medicines, ventilator-assisted breathing, and continuous heart-lung bypass support known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, municipal health officials in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said in a statement Sunday.