Natasha Ott, a 39-year-old woman who was tested for coronavirus but was found dead on her kitchen floor last week before receiving her results, tested negative for the disease, her family said this week.

Ott's initial test result was negative, but a lab is conducting a retest at the request of the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office, said Ott's boyfriend, Josh Anderson, on social media.

A spokesman for the Coroner's Office did not return a request for comment Wednesday but said earlier in the week that the investigation into Ott's death is ongoing.

Results of the retest could come within two days, and will include both the original sample and a new sample, Anderson said.

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The former social worker's death first drew public notice when Anderson said in a social media post that was shared hundreds of times that Ott died March 20 before she got the results from a COVID-19 test taken March 16.

Anderson said Ott had complained of a fever, of a respiratory cold and of appetite loss before she died. He said she initially tested negative for the flu but held off on testing for coronavirus because CrescentCare, her employer, had only a handful of tests available.

She did eventually test for COVID through CrescentCare. It's that test that the coroner is wary of, according to Anderson. That test, plus another posthumous test, was sent to the lab.

A CrescentCare representative confirmed that Ott had died, but declined to say anything more.

Tisa Ott, Ott's sister, said in an interview with this newspaper Sunday that she was "devastated" by the loss of her sister.

"I wish I would have talked to her. I wish I would have called her, if I would have known that this was going to happen," she said.

Anderson and Emily Coalson Stamets, another sister, described Natasha in earlier interviews as relatively healthy, excluding a bout they said she had had with an intestinal infection.

But Tisa Ott said her sister had complained in the past two years of "feeling sick off and on," though she said she was unsure if Natasha Ott had ever been formally diagnosed with a condition.

"I don't know if it was coronavirus or not. We won't know until we get the test results," Tisa Ott said.