Officials are expecting to identify more COVID-19 cases from people who have died.
— weeks earlier than the country's first previously known coronavirus-related death was reported.
Tissue samples from autopsies performed on two people who died on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17 respectively showed that both individualsPreviously, the first coronavirus-related death in the country was known to be onThe two people in Santa Clara County died at home, officials said,"during a time when very limited testing was available only through the CDC." The county coroner sent their tissue samples to the CDC and were informed Tuesday that both had COVID-19.
The new dates call into question just how early the coronavirus began to spread in the US, and how many people had contracted and potentially died of COVID-19 before testing became more widespread.
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