George Floyd was SARS-nCoV-2 positive, that’s the virus that causes Covid-19. The cause of death in the official autopsy report was cardiopulmonary arrest.
What’s worth noting is that in Lombardy, the European epicenter of Covid-19 crisis, there was a 58% rise in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests between Feb 21-Mar 31. More here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010418
Here’s the actual things that George Floyd said during the arrest:
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I can’t breathe this way… this COVID man…
I’ve had COVID man, I can’t breathe
Experts during the trial didn’t really incorporate C19 in this equation:
Bebarta said Floyd did not die from the low levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, nor from his heart disease and high blood pressure.
… which is an approach to defense that hasn’t yet been used.