COVID-19: Broadway star Nick Cordero faces leg amputation due to virus

Broadway star Nick Cordero faces leg amputation due to new Coronavirus. His wife Amanda Koots has shared the news on Instagram. She revealed that her husband Nick Cordero, will have to have his right leg amputated after suffering complications from coronavirus.

Amanda Koots on Instagram said Saturday that Cordero had been treated with blood thinners to help with clotting in his leg, but his doctors had to stop the treatment because it was causing internal bleeding.

“We took him off blood thinners but that again was going to cause some clotting in the right leg, so the right leg will be amputated today,” she said.

Check out her post here:

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We did this photo shoot with our friend @ash_a_ley about a month ago. I remember at the time saying to her that I really wanted to capture this time right now. Wow, am I glad we did! It’s Day 17 since Nick went under. Today his body is adjusting. Adjusting to being off ECMO, adjusting to more medications and some sideways steps but we are staying positive. He is no doubt receiving the best care from the team @cedarssinai ❤️ Continued prayers for our guy. I’ll see you at 3pm to sing and dance to Live Your Life! #wakeupnick

A post shared by AK! ⭐️ (@amandakloots) on Apr 17, 2020 at 1:45pm PDT

Cordero entered the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 31 and has been on a ventilator and unconscious after contracting Covid-19. His wife Amanda has been sending him daily videos of their 10-month-old son, Elvis, so he could see them when we woke up. She is also urging friends and fans to join a daily sing-a-long.

Cordero played a mob soldier in Broadway’s Woody Allen 1994 film adaptation of Bullets Over Broadway, for which he received a Tony nomination for best-featured actor in a musical. He has also appeared on popular television series like Blue Bloods and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lilyhammer. He was also seen in the film Going in Style.

The other Broadway veterans affected by the new coronavirus are, Danny Burstein, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Gavin Creel, Aaron Tveit, and Laura Bell Bundy as well as composer David Bryan.

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