December 14, 2024

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Health officials quietly moved the date of the 1st US COVID-19 death to January 2020

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The first recorded death from COVID-19 in the U.S. occurred a month earlier than previously thought: A Kansas woman’s death certificate was recently amended to say she died from the disease in January 2020, according to news reports.

The 78-year-old woman, Lovell “Cookie” Brown, died on Jan. 9, 2020 in Leavenworth, Kansas, several weeks before the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in the U.S., according to The Mercury News. Initially, Brown’s death certificate said she died of a stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. But in May 2021, her doctors quietly updated the certificate to add “COVID-19 pneumonia” as a cause of death, The Mercury News reported.

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