On April 28, 2020, Kenneth Kerns was working from home in his role as the senior director of research safety and occupational health at the University of Arizona. A Zoom meeting was scheduled for that morning; prior to the online gathering he took a bathroom break.
When he failed to emerge at the meeting’s start, his wife Karri knocked on the bathroom door. Kerns didn’t respond but his wife heard sounds from inside the bathroom that sounded like snoring. She tried to open the door but was unable to push it in.
