A Hartford baby who died in late March and who was initially called the youngest COVID death in the country by Gov. Ned Lamont officially died from unexplained causes, the chief state’s medical examiner’s office announced late Friday afternoon.
The 6-1/2 week-old infant did test positive for COVID-19 post-mortem, but Chief State’s Medical Examiner James Gill said Friday not enough is known about how the virus impacts infants to know if it had any role in the baby’s death. Gill listed “unsafe sleep in bassinet with soft bedding” as a reason for the sudden death.
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