The first U.S. COVID-19 death took place on Feb. 6, an autopsy shows. The person died at home in Santa Clara County, Calif., at a time when testing in the U.S. was tightly limited.
Santa Clara County's medical examiner says a person who died on Feb. 6 has posthumously tested positive for COVID-19. Here, medical students, faculty and volunteers take blood samples during a coronavirus antibody study in Mountain View, Calif., earlier this month.MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/MediaNews Group via Getty Images
The person is one of three people posthumously identified as dying from COVID-19 in Santa Clara County, after theand sent samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The other two deaths took place on Feb. 17 and March 6. The Bay Area county, which had previously reported its first COVID-19 death on March 9, says it will likely identify more coronavirus deaths as its investigation continues.
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