Medical Examiner’s Autopsy Reveals George Floyd Had Positive Test for Coronavirus

A full autopsy report on George Floyd, the man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police last month, reveals that he was positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. {snip}

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Floyd’s death has been ruled a homicide.

The autopsy report concludes the cause of death was “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” That conclusion, death due to heart failure, differs from the one reached by an independent examiner hired by the Floyd family; that report listed the cause of death as “asphyxiation from sustained pressure.”

{snip} However, according to prosecutors, in charging documents filed last week, the results “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”

The medical examiner’s report also details blunt-force injuries to the skin of Floyd’s head, face and upper lip, as well as the shoulders, hands and elbows and bruising of the wrists consistent with handcuffs.

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In addition to fentanyl and methamphetamine, the toxicology report from the autopsy showed that Floyd also had cannabinoids in his system when he died.

Floyd also had heart disease, hypertension and sickle cell trait — a mostly asymptomatic form of the more serious sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that primarily affects African Americans.

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