Nilesh Vora, Rahim Govani and Salima Thobani, three Los Angeles-based doctors who attended Super Bowl LV as part of the NFL's celebration of health care workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, helped save the life of a fellow passenger on their return flight to L.A.
Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic detailed their efforts Friday, less than two weeks after they were called to action during the Feb. 7 red-eye flight from Miami to Los Angeles.
Blanca Diaz, an L.A. resident in her 60s with asthma, began to feel a sensation she described as an "elephant sitting on her chest" and she tried to use the plane's oxygen mask with her husband, Benito, and a flight attendant concerned she was having an asthma attack.