LOS ANGELES - An off-duty EMT who tried to save a man who died of COVID-19 on a flight bound for LAX says health officials never spoke to him directly about the incident, even though he was exposed to the disease and made headlines across the country after feeling sick in the days after.Earlier in the month, the EMT, Tony Aldapa, was seen giving the plane's passenger CPR after the passenger collapsed mid-flight.
The passenger was later pronounced dead. Coroners in Louisiana, the state where the plane made the emergency landing, ruled the man's death was related to COVID-19.Aldapa says Los Angeles County Public Health didn't contact him until 10 days after the man collapsed during the Dec.