Los Angeles EMT tests negative for coronavirus after providing CPR to man who died of COVID-19

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A Los Angeles EMT on an LAX-bound flight tested negative for coronavirus after providing CPR to a man who had died of COVID-19, according to reports.

EMT Tony Aldapa was on an LAX inbound flight when a 69-year-old passenger went into cardiac arrest. Aldapa provided CPR, but the passenger died.

A coroner found that the passenger had died of COVID-19, but Aldapa tested negative for the virus, FOX LA reported.

The passenger’s wife had started telling people that her husband had exhibited COVID-19 symptoms before the flight, and other passengers were outraged to find that the man had been allowed on the plane.

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Aldapa says he would have provided the care even if he knew the patient was infected. He has since developed a cough and other COVID-19 symptoms, but he tested negative on Tuesday.

"It was all kind of just second nature to see someone in a bad place, you try to bring them out of the bad place," Aldapa told CBS Los Angeles while he was quarantining. "There were three of us that were essentially tag-teaming doing chest compressions, probably about 45 minutes."

"I am feeling much better," Aldapa added.

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Adalpa served in the Navy for eight years before his current profession.