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The first death recorded by COVID-19 in the USA. USA It was the result of a heart rupture caused by a coronavirus infection, an autopsy report obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle showed.
The 57-year-old Santa Clara woman, whose death from COVID-19 is the oldest known in the United States so far, died on February 6 and had reported flu-like symptoms in the days leading up to her death. Although he had a slightly enlarged heart, he had no coronary heart disease or spot clots that would have triggered a heart attack, the report revealed.
The autopsy, performed by coroner Dr. Susan Parson, found evidence of a COVID-19 viral infection in her heart, trachea, lungs, and intestines. The autopsy was completed on February 7 but was not signed until April 23.
“There is something abnormal about the fact that a perfectly normal heart has opened,” said forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek, who did not participate in the autopsy but read the report at the Chronicle’s request, adding that normal hearts are not generally breaking off
Before this week, the country’s first death from COVID-19 was believed to have occurred on February 28 in Washington state.
However, this woman’s death suggests that the coronavirus was quietly spreading across the country earlier than health experts initially thought.
