An emergency room doctor died after displaying coronavirus symptoms. His best friend said he 'lost his life needlessly' due to lack of protective equipment.

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• Dr. Frank Gabrin, a two-time cancer survivor, woke up gasping for air on Tuesday.
• His husband told NJ.com that Gabrin, an emergency room doctor in New Jersey, had to reuse personal protective equipment. The hospitals Gabrin worked at, however, told NBC New York that they were stocked.
• "Frank made it very clear that it's not about what happens — it's not about the outcome, you don't get to save every patient — but it's about what you do with the outcome," his friend, Deborah Lyons, told CNN on Wednesday.
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An emergency room doctor died in his husband's arms on Tuesday, a week after first noticing symptoms consistent with COVID-19 — and after earlier being forced by shortages to reuse masks and gowns while treating patients with the novel coronavirus two weeks ago, his husband alleges.

"He loved to help people," Arnold Vargas, Dr. Frank Gabrin's bereaved spouse, told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday. Speaking less than 24 hours after Gabrin died suddenly after waking up unable to breathe, Vargas, weeping, was unable to continue.

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