Autopsy Reveals First US Patient Died With CCP Virus on Feb. 6

A pedestrian wearing a mask with their dog in the parking lot of a closed Victoria Golf Course as authorities encourage social distancing to prevent the spread of CCP virus in Carson, California on April 18, 2020. Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters

An American patient who died with the CCP virus on Feb. 6, according to newly received autopsy results, over three weeks before the first COVID-19-linked death in the United States was previously known to have occurred.

COVID-19 is a new disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, a novel coronavirus that emerged from mainland China last year.