First recorded Covid death in US was from massive heart attack, autopsy says – POLITICO

SAN FRANCISCO — A Santa Clara County lady who’s the earliest recorded demise from Covid-19 within the USA died of a broad coronary heart assault, essentially based fully mostly on an autopsy conducted by the county’s clinical expert and acquired by the San Francisco Memoir.

The 57-twelve months-former lady, who died Feb. 6, had evidence of the coronavirus infection in her coronary heart, trachea, lungs and intestines, essentially based fully mostly on an autopsy file posted Saturday by the Memoir that was done Feb. 7, nevertheless now now not signed till April 23.

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County officials launched the demise earlier this week, making it the fundamental identified demise within the nation linked with the virus and indicating Covid-19 was seemingly circulating earlier within the nation than previously idea. The demise came three weeks earlier than Washington utter reported its Feb. 28 demise, which till this week was idea to be because the nation’s first.

The girl had reported flu-fancy indicators within the days leading as much as her demise, the autopsy says. She was mildly overweight and had a mildly enlarged coronary heart, essentially based fully mostly on the autopsy, nevertheless had no coronary coronary heart disease or clotting that would possibly maybe dangle triggered a coronary heart assault. The autopsy chanced on that blood had serene within the sac round her coronary heart, leading to stress on the coronary heart that triggered it to rupture.

Santa Clara County properly being officials did now not respond Saturday afternoon to a demand for observation.