A 57-year-old woman from California who was mildly obese and had no other medical conditions died on February 6th after her heart "burst." Her family learned months later that she was actually an early victim of the novel coronavirus, as the results of an autopsy and post-mortem testing came back positive. The woman was one of two early COVID-19 deaths in February that showed the virus was spreading in America and killing patients weeks before the first documented coronavirus fatalities, at a time when testing wasn't widely available.
Now, a similar story comes from Tennessee, but this one has a bizarre twist. The family of a 66-year-old woman who died in February received a notice that she tested positive for COVID-19. But this time around, it turns out that the woman didn't die of coronavirus at all — unless she somehow found a way to take a coronavirus test more than four months after she died and was cremated.
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