NY
Doctor: Elmhurst Residents Are Contracting COVID-19 at an Alarming Rate
March 28, 2020, By Michael Dorgan
Elmhurst has become the epicenter of the coronavirus with many residents being infected, according to a doctor who has worked at Elmhurst Hospital for 20 years and has dealt with a flood of patients this month.
The physician, who did not want to be named, said that the first patients to come down with coronavirus and go to the hospital reside in the immediate area.
She said that the hospital soon struggled to keep pace with the influx and most people carrying the virus were sent home because their life was not in danger. Furthermore, this started happening before the city shut down.
She said that many of the infected people would then walk the streets of Elmhurst– some without masks and gloves– and then return to their densely populated homes carrying the virus.
https://astoriapost.com/doctor-elmhurst-residents-are-contracting-covid-19-at-an-alarming-rate
RI
Rhode Island’s governor calls to quarantine New Yorkers to stop the COVID-19 spread
49 mins ago
The governor of Rhode Island is taking extreme measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in her state by sending law enforcement officers door-to-door to quarantine New York residents.
The effort is to stop the spread of the coronavirus to Rhode Island residents by people who were in the epicenter of the viral disease. The number of confirmed cases in the Ocean State reached over 200 as of Friday which pales in comparison to the over 26,000 in New York City.