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A cluster of mysterious deaths, some involving infants and children, is under scrutiny amid questions of whether the novel coronavirus lurked in California months before it was first detected. latimes.com/california/sto…
Among those awaiting answers is Maribeth Ortiz, whose adult son, died Jan. 7 in Orange County. He had been healthy, suffering on a Friday from what he thought was food poisoning, and found dead in bed the following Tuesday, drowned by fluid in his lungs.
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China didn’t announce its first COVID-19 death until four days later. But by his Feb. 1 funeral service, frightening stories of a deadly new virus in Wuhan dominated the news.
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More than 40 California deaths are waiting for a decision by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on whether to test for COVID-19.

Orange County has nine of the cases, as does Los Angeles County.
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A positive finding in any of the cases could dramatically rewrite the narrative of COVID-19 in the United States.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the last name of parent Maribeth Cortez as Ortiz. The story has been corrected to reflect the correct last name.
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