Six people died from COVID-19 after attending a funeral during which a ‘super-spreader’ with no obvious symptoms is believed to have infected all of them.
The deaths occurred in the Kershaw County in South Carolina where people have allegedly gathered to pay their respects to a deceased friend and family member back in March, prior to the government’s restrictions that now prohibit mass gatherings.
As the county’s coroner explained in an interview with The State, a “super-spreader” is believed to have infected several people, of which six have later died of COVID-19, during the funeral.
“We don’t want anyone to think that they are just numbers because they are not. They are people that lost their lives tragically,” Robbie Baker, the coroner, said in an interview with FOX 57.
According to the coroner, other funeral participants were asked to self-quarantine after the cases came to light.
While it is uncertain how the six people who died weeks after the funeral contracted the novel coronavirus, the coroner believes a “super-spreader,” who most likely didn’t know that they were a carrier, infected them at the event.
Suggesting that the coroner might be right is a similar incident that took place in the Washington state in March when 45 out of 60 choir members contracted coronavirus during a practice.
As of this writing, the U.S. has confirmed over 760,000 COVID-19 cases and more than 40,000 deaths related to the disease.
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