A devastated family have paid tribute to a dad who passed away from coronavirus just two days after being diagnosed with the condition.
Adolph T.J. Mendez, 44, succumbed to the illness at the Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas on Thursday. His grieving family members described him as being "perfectly healthy"before he died.
The kindergarten teacher leaves behind his wife, Angela Mendez, three sons and two daughters, reports the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung.
Angela described her shock at her husband's untimely death and said that he had no underlying health conditions. She said: “You hear that the people who die are older, or have previous health conditions, but he was neither and the virus took him down hard. “It can happen to