It 'Went Downhill Extremely Fast': Nurse Dies 12 Hours After Testing Positive for COVID

[Demovictory9]

During a shift at work, a co-worker told Jeff Sales that he didn't "look great," so he got tested for COVID-19. Twelve hours after the positive diagnosis, he died at the hospital where he worked.

Sales worked as a nurse at a Florida hospital throughout the pandemic and on Friday, another nurse working the same shift expressed concern about how he looked, according to a GoFundMe. Decades earlier, he had open-heart surgery while serving in Korea and hours after he tested positive for COVID-19, he went into heart failure, leaving behind a wife and four children.

"We were all talking to him that morning, and it just all went downhill extremely fast," Sales' son, Austin, told KUTV, noting that his dad tested positive at six in the morning and died at six that night.

The Sales' moved to Florida in 2020 and the 47-year-old worked at Blake Medical Center throughout the pandemic. Described as a nurse who was always willing to pick up the extra slack, Sales would work overnights and extra shifts because of the nursing shortage and uptick in patients, according to the GoFundMe.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it-went-downhill-extremely-fast-nurse-dies-12-hours-after-testing-positive-for-covid/ar-AAT8hd4

[LisaL]

1. He was fully vaccinated per GoFundMe.

Covid could still be very dangerous to people with pre-existing conditions, even if fully vaxxed.

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[Doodley]

2. Very sad. Nurses are paying the price for the unvaccinated with their lives.

[hlthe2b]

3. Wrenching. My thoughts and tears for the family and coworkers.

[gademocrat7]

4. Tragic

A dedicated nurse dies caring for the unvaccinated. Condolences to his family.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Florida Hospital. Say no more.

He didn't make it through the De Santis' "Bring it on" Covid wave.

I'm hoping they check to make sure it's not a new virus that kills in less than 24 hours.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. That's pretty frightening.

Fully vaccinated. And still fatal. I know he had a "heart condition" of some kind, but it wasn't so serious that he wasn't working full-time and even picking up extra shifts.

This is why I give the evil eye to people walking around the grocery unmasked. It's still possible to get infected by them while fully vaxed and masked.

[LisaL]

7. I recently lost my vaxxed and boosted relative to covid.

Relative had pre-existing conditions. It also happened pretty fast (although not as fast as with the guy in the OP). So it's still dangerous to older people with pre-existing conditions. My relative just had cough initially. Less than a week later in ICU on a vent, then dead.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. My condolences.

I'm an older person with pre-existing conditions. That's why I only go to places I just have to. I would like to travel and see the kids and grandkids again, but I think it's still just too dangerous.

[LisaL]

9. Yes, you still have to be very careful.

Hopefully Omicron wave goes down soon, but who knows what variants covid will come up with next.

[Pobeka]

11. Another sad example why we *all* need to be vaxxed, boosted.

If the person he caught it from had never had it, he wouldn't have been exposed.

It is still, ultimately a risk proposition for the whole population. We protect the most vunerable by reducing the amount of circulating virus in the entiire community.

Altruism saves lives, maybe your own. The most selfish thing you can do is get vacccinated even if you think you are low risk of COVID19 severe symptoms, because, the graveyards are full of people who thought they were low risk.