Mysterious deaths in California may rewrite COVID-19 narrative: report

[Judi Lynn]

14:52, 29-Jun-2020

More than 40 California deaths are waiting for a decision by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on whether to test for COVID-19, and any positive finding among them "could dramatically rewrite the narrative of COVID-19" in the country, wrote Los Angeles Times.

According to the report, a cluster of mysterious respiratory deaths, as early as last December, is "under scrutiny amid questions of whether the novel coronavirus lurked in California months before it was first detected."

The report cited Jeremiah DeLap's experience as an example. The 39-year-old man died on January 7 in Orange County while visiting his parents.

His mother Maribeth Cortez described that DeLap was found dead in bed hours later after saying that he was having trouble breathing, and that when he passed away, his lungs were filled with fluid and his body was still burning from fever.

Cortez was quoted as saying everybody that knows DeLap suspected that he died of COVID-19, but there is no accurate answer so far.

More:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-29/Mysterious-deaths-in-California-may-rewrite-COVID-19-narrative-report-RIkfqYHYuA/index.html

[beachbumbob]

1. need some pathology on the bodies to prove or disprove

[diane in sf]

2. I think it was going around Solano County in December and January and I think I had it.

[lagomorph777]

3. Saw a lady on TV (unrelated show) who had "flu" in December that sounds more like COVID.

She is in Las Vegas. She spent a month in a coma on a respirator.

Lots of people got sick after the Consumer Electronics Show in early January. https://www.apmreports.org/story/2020/04/23/covid-infected-attendee-ces-tech-conference

Also there were mysterious deaths in December in Northern Virginia hospitals that sound (in retrospect) exactly like COVID.