Posted on 06/04/2020 5:40:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - George Floyd, whose fatal encounter with Minneapolis police stirred a global outcry over racial bias by U.S. law enforcement, tested positive for the coronavirus, his autopsy showed, but the infection was not listed as a factor in his death.
The official cause of death, according to the full 20-page report made public on Wednesday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office, was cardiopulmonary arrest while Floyd was being restrained by police taking him into custody on May 25.
The coroner ruled the manner of death to be a homicide.
The autopsy, in listing cardiopulmonary arrest as the cause of Floyd’s death, also cited “complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.”
The report listed several additional factors as “significant conditions” contributing to Floyd’s death, including heart disease, high blood pressure and intoxication from the powerful opioid fentanyl, as well as recent methamphetamine use.
The report further noted that a nasal swab sample collected from Floyd’s body came back positive for COVID-19, and that Floyd had also tested positive on April 3, nearly eight weeks before his death.
The county’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker, concluded that the post mortem test result “most likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent ... positivity from previous infection.” There was no indication in the autopsy report that coronavirus played any role in Floyd’s death.
Dr. Michael Baden, one of two medical examiners who conducted a private autopsy for Floyd’s family, told the New York Times that county officials never told him, or the funeral director, that Floyd had tested positive for COVID-19.
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Another CV19 death. I knew it! The cops can now go free. ;)
Putting aside for a moment how that could have affected his lungs functioning properly.
In NYC, if anyone dies for any reason and has COVID or is suspect to have COVID, their deaths is counted as a COVID death.
So...George Floyd died of COVID.
If this is true, that changes his cause of death from kneeling cop to covid. I’ll bet all those rioters feel silly now.
well, covid could have create long term breathing damage.
I would like to know if any of these cops got the Wuhan Flu because there sure was a lack of social distancing.
This broke on Hannity’s TV show last night.
Another body for the COVID death count.
Heard that Minneapolis had a total of 7 cases of Covid-19. Officials trying to pad the stats?
So what. Probably everybody in the cities is infected by now.
If he had been following CDC guidelines, and self-quarantining himself, he might be alive today.
cardiac problems are known issues with COVID19.
I would like to hear more as to whether he had suffered and recovered
He clearly had enough issues that he had gotten a test. They weren’t freely doing tests back on April 3.
His vascular issues along with other comorbidities should have caused him to have significant problems.
If he didnt, scientists should look at why.
Was it the nicotine??
I dont see that he was on cocaine but it has been thought it might provide help. They use cocoa leaves in South American to deal with Hypoxia. Viagra on Mt Everest.
So did his various other drugs provide help
Or was it is sickle cell trait which is a malaria evolved issue.
Well then, add another tick to the count.
This is a tough call for cause of death.
covid 19?
global warming?
racism?
The first non Covid 19 death in the world!
And this guy was a bouncer? With a host of major health problems, sounds like he should have been in a nursing home rather than bouncing bar patrons. But then, again, if he was in a NYC nursing, he would never have survived to make it to the post mortem celebrity dying below a cop’s knee.
HE DIED FOR COVID NOT BY COP, just ask govenor cuomo
None of this matters. This train left the station long ago.
I dont know how long people can live with 90% blocked artery but seems like he was a heart attack just waiting to happen
If it created breathing damage it certainly was not long term.
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