39-year-old, once feared to be coronavirus victim, died of heart condition

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A 39-year-old New Orleans woman whose boyfriend blamed coronavirus for her untimely death, in a social media post that spread nationally in the fearful early days of the pandemic’s spread across the U.S., in fact died naturally of a weakened heart, a coroner’s official said Wednesday.

The cause of Natasha Ott’s death on March 20 is listed as “dilated cardiomyopathy with remote myocardial infarct,” Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna’s office said. A myocardial infarction is a heart attack.

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