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A Coronavirus Death in Early February Was ‘Probably the Tip of an Iceberg’ The startling discovery that the virus was responsible for a Feb. 6 death in California raises questions about where else it might have been spreading undetected. [image: The coronavirus was circulating in the Bay Area of California as early as January, even before the federal government began restricting travel from China on Feb. 2.] The coronavirus was circulating in the Bay Area of California as early as January, even before the federal government began restricting travel from China on Feb. 2.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times By Thomas Fuller <https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-fuller>, Mike Baker <https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker>, Shawn Hubler and Sheri Fink <https://www.nytimes.com/by/sheri-fink> - Published April 22, 2020Updated April 23, 2020, 8:48 a.m. ET - - <https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=9869919170&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fus%2Fsanta-clara-county-coronavirus-death.html%3Fsmid%3Dfb-share&name=A%20Coronavirus%20Death%20in%20Early%20February%20Was%20%E2%80%98Probably%20the%20Tip%20of%20an%20Iceberg%E2%80%99&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F> - <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fus%2Fsanta-clara-county-coronavirus-death.html%3Fsmid%3Dtw-share&text=A%20Coronavirus%20Death%20in%20Early%20February%20Was%20%E2%80%98Probably%20the%20Tip%20of%20an%20Iceberg%E2%80%99> - <?subject=NYTimes.com%3A%20A%20Coronavirus%20Death%20in%20Early%20February%20Was%20%E2%80%98Probably%20the%20Tip%20of%20an%20Iceberg%E2%80%99&body=From%20The%20New%20York%20Times%3A%0A%0AA%20Coronavirus%20Death%20in%20Early%20February%20Was%20%E2%80%98Probably%20the%20Tip%20of%20an%20Iceberg%E2%80%99%0A%0AThe%20startling%20discovery%20that%20the%20virus%20was%20responsible%20for%20a%20Feb.%206%20death%20in%20California%20raises%20questions%20about%20where%20else%20it%20might%20have%20been%20spreading%20undetected.%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fus%2Fsanta-clara-county-coronavirus-death.html%3Fsmid%3Dem-share> - - 阅读简体中文版 <https://cn.nytimes.com/usa/20200423/santa-clara-county-coronavirus-death/> 閱讀繁體中文版 <https://cn.nytimes.com/usa/20200423/santa-clara-county-coronavirus-death/zh-hant/> SAN FRANCISCO — Weeks before there was evidence that the coronavirus was spreading in U.S. communities, Patricia Dowd, a 57-year-old auditor at a Silicon Valley semiconductor manufacturer, developed flulike symptoms and abruptly died in her San Jose kitchen, triggering a search for what had killed her. Flu tests were negative. The coroner was baffled. It appeared that she had suffered a massive heart attack. But tissue samples from Ms. Dowd, who died on Feb. 6, have now shown that she was infected with the coronavirus <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-first-united-states-death.html> — a startling discovery that has rewritten the timeline of the virus’s early spread <https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html> in the United States and suggests that the optimistic assumptions that drove federal policies over the early weeks of the outbreak were misplaced. FLYING DURING A PANDEMIC Some people who have had to board commercial flights in recent weeks have taken elaborate precautions <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/coronavirus-airplane-masks-goggles.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article> to protect themselves from the coronavirus. The unexpected new finding makes clear that the virus was circulating in the Bay Area of California as early as January, even before the federal government began restricting travel from China <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/china-travel-coronavirus.html> on Feb. 2. It also raises new questions about where else the virus might have been spreading undetected. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/santa-clara-county-coronavirus-death.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200423&instance_id=17847&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=38183359&segment_id=25786&user_id=ef5ce672e120161228dcf3446bbc7a61#after-story-ad-1> With little local testing throughout February <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html> — in part because of botched testing kits <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/cdc-coronavirus-lab-contamination-testing.html> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with strict guidelines that limited who could get tested — officials were not aware of the virus transmitting locally in the country until Feb. 26, in Solano County, Calif. Previous cases had involved people who had traveled to China, where the outbreak began, or who had been exposed to someone who was sick. But the Feb. 26 case in Solano County <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/health/coronavirus-cdc-usa.html> was of unexplained origin. Similar cases of community transmission <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/coronavirus-solano-county.html> were quickly identified in nearby Santa Clara County, which includes San Jose, as well as in Washington State and Oregon. The new test results made public late Tuesday show that even this timeline failed to reveal how long the virus had been circulating. Ms. Dowd had not recently traveled outside the country, the authorities said, and yet she died a full 20 days before the earliest recorded case of community transmission. Another previously unconnected death in Santa Clara County, on Feb. 17, has also now been linked to the coronavirus. “Each one of those deaths is probably the tip of an iceberg of unknown size,” Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s medical officer, said in an interview. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/santa-clara-county-coronavirus-death.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200423&instance_id=17847&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=38183359&segment_id=25786&user_id=ef5ce672e120161228dcf3446bbc7a61 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
