In Illinois, a sixty-four-year-old woman named Debra K. Smith has died as she thought she was suffering from the flu or bad cold, but she was suffering from COVID-19.
As per the information provided by Smith’s brother, she was having a word with her brother on the phone that she was sick with a bad cold. Recently she moved into a high-rise apartment near Millennium Park in Chicago on February 28, where she was starting a new job on March 9.
Since the beginning of March 7, he further mentioned that he had not heard anything from her sister since the first time. On March 10, the individuals in her workplace highlighted that she has also not shown up for work, says her brother.
According to the police report, Smith’s brother asked for a well-being check in her apartment, and the manager unlocked the door of the house where she was living, and he discovered that the 64-year-old was lying on the couch and was not responding to anything. Afterwards, he called Paramedics. They saw no signs of trauma but discovered she was dead.
Along with this, Dr Ponni Arunkumar, “In retrospect. She was exhibiting all the symptoms of COVID — fever, night sweats, extreme fatigue, breathing trouble, muscle pain, mild disorientation, etc.”
Smith’s doctor consulted with the medical examiner’s office and agreed that COVID-19 was most likely to blame for Smith’s death. Her brother says Debra Smith had just had a physical exam, her high blood pressure was under control, and her overall health was good.
Arunkumar signed a sworn declaration in September 2021 stating that the cause of death should be likely COVID-19 and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, and the office issued a new death certificate reflecting the change.
Furthermore, the county spokesperson, Natalia Derevyanny, the medical examiner’s office, studied dozens of additional cases of persons dying of flulike symptoms from November 2019 to March 2020, examining available tissue samples, but found no indication that any of them died of COVID-19.
