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By Rima Abdelkader • Updated on December 16, 2020 at 10:56 pm Courtesy: Ghada Ghanem Bassam Saba, a notable figure of Arabic music and once a part of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road artists and Global Musician Workshop faculty, died from complications due to COVID-19 on Dec. 4. He was transferred to the non-COVID ICU in the American University of Beirut Medical Center after he was no longer deemed infectious. Days later, he was intubated after going through septic shock from contracting a superbug, and later died, his wife Dr. Diala Jaber said from the couple s home in Northport, New York. “He had overcome the hard part of the COVID, but his lungs of course were very weakened by the COVID . and then when he got the bacteria, his immune system was too low to fight the bacteria even though he was put on the proper antibiotics for the bacteria and his septic shock was too strong,” Jaber said.

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