New autopsies reveal US coronavirus spread began in January

Two people who died in California in early and mid February have been confirmed through autopsies as coronavirus cases -- weeks before the first reported COVID-19 fatality in the United States."Models of epidemic spread in the US will have to be adjusted to account for an earlier start date," Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University told AFP.The earliest death attributed to the coronavirus was previously thought to be on February 26 in Washington state -- a man in his 30s