George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19, according to his autopsy
George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who was killed after a white police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes, tested positive for COVID-19,, the medical examiner's office and Floyd's family agreed to release his full autopsy on Wednesday.
The autopsy states that a nasal swab conducted on Floyd postmortem revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19. Andrew Baker, the chief medical examiner, commented in the autopsy that Floyd had tested positive for the virus on April 3 and that a positive result postmortem "likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent" positivity from his previous infection. However, the autopsy did not cite COVID-19 as a factor in his death.
His autopsy also revealed that Floyd, who died in police custody on May 25, "became unresponsive while being restrained by law enforcement officers" and said he died as a result of "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." The autopsy also noted that he had several blunt force trauma injuries to his face, forehead, and upper lip and that Floyd had underlying health conditions, including hypertensive heart disease.
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