“I remember her specifically saying ‘I’m not feeling well,’” he added. “She wasn’t feeling well, which was very unusual for her,” Cabello said. US Centers for Disease Control and PreventionĢ Californians died of coronavirus weeks before previously known 1st US deathįive days before she died, Dowd called her brother to tell him she couldn’t make it to a family visit in Stockton, California. state and local public health laboratories, Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories and select international laboratories. CDC is shipping the test kits to laboratories CDC has designated as qualified, including U.S. Sara Cody said in a Wednesday news conference, and officials are presuming both cases represent community transmission.īefore Dowd was found dead February 6, “she had flu-like symptoms for a few days, then appeared to recover,” the Los Angeles Times reported.ĬDC's laboratory test kit for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Neither patient had a recent history of travel that would have exposed them to the virus, Santa Clara County Department of Public Health Director Dr. The county did not name the woman, but Cabello told the Los Angeles Times and CNN that she was Dowd, his sister. One victim was a 57-year-old woman who died on February 6, and the other was a 69-year-old man who died on February 17, the county said. Patricia Dowd Cusimano Family Colonial MortuaryĬalifornia’s Santa Clara County had announced Tuesday that tissue samples confirmed two people who had died in early February tested positive for coronavirus – well before the United States’ previously understood first coronavirus-related death on February 29 in Washington state.

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