Dr. Frank Gabrin A New Jersey ER doctor died in his New York City apartment before medics arrived Tuesday, one week after displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
On Tuesday morning Dr. Frank Gabrin, 60, woke up with chest pain. “Baby, I can’t breathe,” Gabrin told his husband, Arnold Vargas, according to NJ Advance Media. “He had a lot of coughing and two days ago he was very sick,” Vargas said through tears on Wednesday. Related: Detroit bus driver dies of COVID-19 weeks after complaining of passenger's cough Gabrin began working at an East Orange hospital in New Jersey nine months ago and divided his time between there and a hospital on Long Island, New York.