SEATTLE -- In a county north of Seattle, two people who came down with respiratory illnesses in December now have antibodies for the coronavirus. In Florida, a public health official who got sick in January believes he had COVID-19.And in California, a surprising discovery that an early-February death
SEATTLE — In a county north of Seattle, two people who came down with respiratory illnesses in December now have antibodies for the coronavirus. In Florida, a public health official who got sick in January believes he had COVID-19.
A team that analyzes flu trends in the region has been able to review nearly 7,000 old flu samples collected from around the region in January and February, re-examining them for coronavirus. All of the samples from January were negative. The earliest sample that tested positive was Feb. 20. In San Jose, tissue sampling from a woman who died on Feb. 6 revealed that she was probably the first known person in the U.S. whose death was linked to the coronavirus — a strong sign that the virus may have been circulating in that part of Northern California in January.A: Dr.
One of them is Raul Pino, the health officer for the Florida Department of Health in Orange County. He said recently that he suspects he had the virus in the first week of January.A: Doctors in France have said that a patient’s sample from late December has since tested positive for coronavirus. But so far, there is no comparable evidence of a similar case in the United States.
Bedford said he also believed this was the more likely scenario, noting that up to half of people with coronavirus infections have no symptoms. Modelers looking back at the growth of outbreaks elsewhere have reached similar conclusions. One estimated that New York’s outbreak could have begun with perhaps 10 infected people who contracted the virus sometime between the end of January to the middle of February, when the first cases of community transmission were identified and hospitals began seeing more cases.
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