NY
First coronavirus case confirmed on Staten Island
Updated 10:27 PM; Today 10:12 PM
By Joseph Ostapiuk |
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Staten Island was confirmed Monday, according to an internal Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) memo obtained by the Advance/SiLive.com...
A source with knowledge of the case said the individual is an adult patient who came into the hospital exhibiting symptoms over the weekend.
The patient was sent home, according to the source, and results came back on Monday testing positive for the coronavirus.
https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/first-coronavirus-case-confirmed-on-staten-island.html
When other countries can get the test results back in 4-5 hours, there’s is NO reason the US can’t. That hospital could have had him wait in a room 5 hours instead of sending him home and now back again. How many did he infect by Monday? If the hospital didn’t take precautions themselves, well, there’s all those people who came in after him potentially catching it.