- Coronavirus cases and deaths are, sadly, still continuing to climb in the US, where more than 830,000 cases (and more than 45,000 deaths) have been confirmed as of the time of this writing, per the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University.
- Meanwhile, officials are now learning that the virus may have actually been quietly at work in the US weeks before it was originally believed, with the first US deaths from the coronavirus now understood to have come in early February (as opposed to late February, the previous understanding).
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New autopsy data out of California has revealed a surprising fact about the novel coronavirus pandemic that continues to ravage the US and the rest of the world: People were dying from the virus in the US weeks earlier than we previously believed.
That’s according to a news release from Santa Clara County in Northern California, which notes that two California residents actually died from the coronavirus in the first weeks of February (on February 6 and 17). That was some three weeks before what was originally thought to be the first US death from the virus, a revelation that’s causing health experts and public officials to re-examine what they thought they knew about the spread of the deadly and highly contagious virus.
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