好英语网“冰山一角”：加州补报死亡病例，改写美国疫情时间线
SAN FRANCISCO — Weeks before there was evidence that the coronavirus was spreading in U.S. communities, a 57-year-old woman developed flulike symptoms and abruptly died in her San Jose kitchen, triggering a search for what had killed her. Flu tests were negative. The coroner was baffled. It appeared that the woman had suffered a massive heart attack.
旧金山——在有证据表明新冠病毒在美国存在社区传播几周前，一名57岁的女性出现了类似流感的症状，后来她在位于圣何塞家中的厨房里突然死去，有关部门对其死因展开了调查。她的流感检测结果是阴性。验尸官百思不得其解。她看上去像是出现了一次严重的心脏病发作。
But tissue samples from the woman, who died on Feb. 6, have now shown that she was infected with the coronavirus — a startling discovery that has rewritten the timeline of the virus’ early spread in the United States and suggests that the optimistic assumptions that drove federal policies over the early weeks of the outbreak were misplaced.
但现在，这名2月6日去世的女子的组织样本显示，她感染了新冠病毒——这一令人震惊的发现改写了该病毒在美国早期传播的时间线，表明在疫情暴发的最初几周里决定了联邦政策的乐观假设是不准确的。
The unexpected new finding makes clear that the virus was circulating in the Bay Area of California as early as January, even before the federal government began restricting travel from China on Feb. 2. It also raises new questions about where else the virus might have been spreading undetected.
这一出乎意料的新发现清楚地表明，这种病毒最早在1月，在联邦政府于2月2日开始限制来自中国的旅行之前，已在加州湾区传播。这也引发了还有哪些地方有疫情却未被发现的疑问。
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