HARTFORD, CT – On April 1, Governor Ned Lamont shared the news that a 6-week-old baby in the Hartford area died of the new coronavirus. When Lamont made the announcement, he said the baby is believed to be the youngest victim of the coronavirus in the country.
“This is absolutely heartbreaking,” Lamont said at a press conference on April 1. “We believe this is one of the youngest lives lost anywhere due to COVID-19 related complications. This is a virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy.” “
After Lamont’s comments, state officials said they had to confirm whether the baby died from the virus or possibly something else. And at 5 p.m. Friday, James Gill, MD, Chief of Forensic Medicine, released a brief statement to the media.
In the statement, Gill said that while the baby had the coronavirus, the baby died of “sudden unexpected death in childhood.”
Here is Gill’s full statement he released on Friday night. “The cause of death for the 6-1 / 2 week baby who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus has been completed. The death has been certified as: Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood (unsafe sleep in a crib with clothes soft bed, novel respiratory infection with coronavirus (covid-19).
“Babies can die from unexplained causes (eg, SIDS) or from compromised sleep conditions. Therefore, when there is no definitive cause of death at autopsy, these deaths are generally certified as” Undetermined “or” Sudden unexpected / unexplained death in childhood. “When there are intrinsic and / or extrinsic risk factors in such death, the cause is certified as indicated above and the risk factors are listed in parentheses.”
“Lung tissue was sent to CDC for further testing and confirmed COVID-19 infection. There is currently limited medical information on how COVID-19 infection affects infants. Therefore, the contributing role of COVID infection -19 remains unclear as typical Microscopic findings of the lung currently described in COVID-19 infections in adults were not observed, “Gill concluded.
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