Dublin Coroner Aisling Gannon said it was not clear the extent to which having the Covid virus in a person’s body affects their endurance when undergoing exercise
Covid a causative factor in death of Michael Laffan , husband of Prof Brigid Laffan, who died while swimming at Seapoint, Dún Laoghaire
Prof Laffan, who was at Seapoint with her husband and her son Diarmuid, said she thought it was unusual when she saw her husband stop while still in the water, “which was very cold”. When he started swimming again, he did so erratically. She saw him stop swimming again and “saw him go down” so that only his safety buoy was visible.
Diarmuid Laffan told the inquest his father swam “almost every day” and was “not to far from the changing area” when he appeared to get in trouble. He jumped into the sea and swam towards him. Mr Laffan was given immediate care, including CPR, from two doctors who were present. Diarmuid Laffan said that for the first ten minutes after his father was taken from the water, he “thought it would be like TV” and his father, who was so healthy, would revive. But he remained unresponsive.
Dublin Coroner Aisling Gannon said the post-mortem examination found “no evidence” that Mr Laffan had suffered a heart attack prior to getting into difficulty but that he did have Covid. Prof Laffan said her husband and the family had not known this.
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