Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in California - Wikipedia On February 6, 57-year-old Patricia Dowd of San Jose, California became the first COVID-19 death in the United States discovered by April 2020 She died at home without any known recent foreign travel, after being unusually sick from flu in late January, then recovering, remote working, and suddenly dying on February 6
COVID-19 pandemic in California - Wikipedia The COVID-19 pandemic in California began earlier than in some other parts of the United States Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California, and the first infection was confirmed on January 26, 2020 [6][7][8] All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China, as testing was restricted to this group, but
California government response to the COVID-19 pandemic California government response to the COVID-19 pandemicThe government of California initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the state with a statewide lockdown, the first of its kind during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States As the pandemic progressed in California and throughout the rest of the country, the California government, following recommendations issued by the U S