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   From: bksherman@latimes.com   
      
   A healthy 39-year-old social worker died days after initially   
   turning down a coronavirus test because she was told she was   
   “low-risk,” her boyfriend said in a heartbreaking Facebook post.   
      
   Josh Anderson says he found girlfriend Natasha Ott dead in her   
   apartment in New Orleans on Friday as she still awaited news on   
   whether her sickness and fever were actually COVID-19.   
      
   He said Ott — who helped people who are HIV-positive — had first   
   told him on March 10 that she had a “respiratory cold” and “tiny   
   fever.”   
      
   “They sent her home, but didn’t test her — she was told she was   
   low-risk,” he wrote, calling his partner “a profoundly kind,   
   passionate, funny and loving 39-year-old woman in good health.”   
      
   Her own clinic only had five test kits available, he said,   
   adding she told him, “I declined to take one so someone else   
   could.”   
      
   After her condition deteriorated, she finally got tested on   
   March 16 — almost a week after first falling sick — but was told   
   the results would take at least five days, with a further delay   
   meaning they are still not ready, he said.   
      
   Anderson detailed Ott’s worsening mood and health, as well as   
   her attempts to reassure him that she would be fine if she just   
   drank whiskey.   
      
   He finally “found her dead in her kitchen” at 8 p.m. Friday   
   while checking up because she had failed to respond to texts or   
   calls.   
      
   “For those of you not fortunate enough to have known her — know   
   this: it’s an immeasurable loss,” he wrote.   
      
   “And seeing a woman I knew to be so full of life lying on the   
   floor lifeless was devastating. I was afraid to touch her. I   
   held her anyway,” he said.   
      
   He warned that the “government is ill-prepared for this pandemic   
   in a way that has and will cost lives,” while urging people to   
   “cherish your loved ones like you could lose them.”   
      
   “The time for joking about Covid-19 is over,” he wrote.   
      
   The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office has not released a cause of   
   death and state health officials have not confirmed it as a case   
   of coronavirus, the New Orleans Advocate noted.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/03/22/39-year-old-woman-dies-waiting-for-   
   coronavirus-test-results/   
       
      
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