CORONAVIRUS LATEST: • Autopsies on 10 African American patients who died from COVID-19 show their lungs were filled with blood clots, according to new study. • Pandemic has killed more than 355,000 people worldwide.
5:06 a.m.: Blood clots clogged lungs of African American coronavirus victims, study finds
The autopsies were performed at University Medical Center in New Orleans by a team of pathologists from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans.
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a mother and daughter pray as paramedics and firefighters with the Anne Arundel County Fire Department prepare to transport the confirmed COVID-19 patient in Glen Burnie, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Despite stay-at-home orders, the Washington, D.C. region has become a coronavirus hotspot, and the African-American and Latino populations of the U.S. capital have been the hardest-hit.
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