A person who died at home in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 was infected with the coronavirus at the time of death, a stunning discovery that makes that individual the first recorded COVID-19 fatality in the United States, according to autopsy results released by public health officials late Tuesday. That death — three weeks before the first fatality was reported in the U.S., in Washington state on Feb. 28 — adds to increasing evidence that the virus was in the country far earlier than once thought.
Ну вот это - hard evidence.
Santa Clara County on Tuesday announced three previously unidentified deaths from the coronavirus: the Feb. 6 case; one on Feb. 17, which also predates the death that was earlier believed to be the first; and one on March 6. Initially, the first death in the county had been reported March 9. ... “From what we understand, neither of the cases had a history of travel,” Cody said. “So we assume that they were acquired locally.” ... Also, in January the United States was in the middle of the typical influenza season, so a death in someone with symptoms similar to the flu wouldn’t have provoked investigation in January, Swartzberg said. In fact, public health experts have surmised that many early deaths from COVID-19 were attributed to the flu instead. “It was influenza season,” Swartzberg said. “Everyone thought it was the flu.”
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First known U.S. coronavirus death occurred on Feb. 6 in Santa Clara County
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A person who died at home in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 was infected with the coronavirus at the time of death, a stunning discovery that makes that individual the first recorded COVID-19 fatality in the United States, according to autopsy results released by public health officials late Tuesday.
That death — three weeks before the first fatality was reported in the U.S., in Washington state on Feb. 28 — adds to increasing evidence that the virus was in the country far earlier than once thought.
Ну вот это - hard evidence.
Santa Clara County on Tuesday announced three previously unidentified deaths from the coronavirus: the Feb. 6 case; one on Feb. 17, which also predates the death that was earlier believed to be the first; and one on March 6. Initially, the first death in the county had been reported March 9.
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“From what we understand, neither of the cases had a history of travel,” Cody said. “So we assume that they were acquired locally.”
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Also, in January the United States was in the middle of the typical influenza season, so a death in someone with symptoms similar to the flu wouldn’t have provoked investigation in January, Swartzberg said. In fact, public health experts have surmised that many early deaths from COVID-19 were attributed to the flu instead.
“It was influenza season,” Swartzberg said. “Everyone thought it was the flu.”