Autopsy: Santa Clara patient died of COVID-19 on Feb. 6 -- 23 days before 1st U.S. death declared
Health officials said Tuesday that new autopsy results show a patient in Santa Clara, Calif., died of COVID-19 on Feb. 6, several weeks before the United States declared its first novel coronavirus death.
The finding suggests that the virus was circulating in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier than previously thought.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first fatality due to coronavirus complications in the United States on Feb. 28. The patient was a resident of Kirkland, Wash.
Now, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department has identified two individuals who died of COVID-19 at home on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17. The health department said samples were sent to the CDC and the results were shared Tuesday.
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She said she was coughing, wheezing, slept a LOT, had a fever, and often felt dizzy and disoriented "like I wasn't getting enough oxygen."
She'd just turned 66 and had received her flu shot as soon as it was available, which is why this thing surprised her so much.
She told me "What I had was totally beyond anything I'd ever had before. It was beyond the flu - it was the flu from Hell". (email quotes used with permission)
Maybe it could have been an early variant of COVID-19? 
