Health and Medicine

 The seven year old Georgia boy who became the youngest person in the state to die of coronavirus drowned in a bathtub after having seizure caused by his high fever, an autopsy found. The child, who has not been named, is believed to have COVID-19 after attending a church in Savannah where two elderly worshippers also died from the virus. Chatham County Coroner Bill Wessinger described the results of the boy's autopsy to CNN on Monday and said that seizures due to high fevers are very common in children with coronavirus. wessinger said that the boy died about two weeks before his death was reported by the county health department last Thursday. The boy had been found unresponsive in the bath and was pronounced dead at a hospital, where he tested positive for COVID-19 postmortem, Wessinger said. The seizure conclusion came from a preliminary report, and the final report is still pending toxicology reports. The boy, who was African American , did not have any underlying health condit...