{"id":653,"date":"2020-05-04T05:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T05:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=653"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:34:27","slug":"dr-doug-bass-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Doug Bass, United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Doug Bass, Medical director, Phoenix House, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the coronavirus bore down on New York, Dr. Doug Bass\u2019 family begged him to work from home. He refused, pointing to his patients at Phoenix House, a drug and alcohol treatment center where he served as medical director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe said he was on the front lines and they needed him,\u201d his brother, Jonathan Bass, told The Associated Press. \u201cToo many people relied on him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bass, 64, died on March 28 after suffering symptoms commonly caused by coronavirus, including coughing, a fever and severe stomach cramping. That made him possibly the first physician still treating patients in New York City to die from the disease caused by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except he wasn\u2019t counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It happened so quickly he was never tested for Covid-19, but his brother believes he was among the hundreds of undiagnosed cases that, for weeks, have been excluded from the official coronavirus death toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would begin counting victims like Bass who weren\u2019t tested, including those dying at home whose symptoms fit certain parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the coronavirus bore down on New York, Dr. Doug Bass\u2019 family begged him to work from home. He refused, pointing to his patients at Phoenix House, a drug and alcohol treatment center where he served as medical director. \u201cHe said he was on the front lines and they needed him,\u201d his brother, Jonathan Bass, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48,7019,15],"tags":[5856,5855,686,220,145,399,394,6112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Doug-Bass-1.jpg?fit=1300%2C732&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5577,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5577","url_meta":{"origin":653,"position":0},"title":"Alex Bass, Physician Assistant","date":"April 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Bass \u2013 a Physician Assistant in Brooklyn, New York \u2013 passed away due to COVID-19. 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