How Coronavirus Killed First U.S. Casualty, Patricia Dowd
April 28, 2020
6:52 am
Patricia Voyles Dowd, the first U.S. citizen killed on 6 February by coronavirus-related ailment died from a ruptured heart, an autopsy has revealed.
The ruptured heart was triggered by the virus’s attack, Livescience.com reported quoting Mercury News.
The 57-year-old woman of San Jose, California, died at home after experiencing flu-like symptoms.
An autopsy found that she was actually infected with the new coronavirus, suggesting that COVID-19 disease was long raging in America, before it became known to health authorities.
Dowd’s death was initially thought to be the result of a heart attack.…
