NEW YORK - lawyer’s son tested positive
Coronavirus Update: 3rd N.Y. Case Confirmed As Yeshiva University Student Tests Positive
March 4, 2020 at 9:20 am
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A student at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights has tested positive for coronavirus, prompting closure of Wilf Campus.
The confirmation raises the total of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York state to three. One is a health care worker who recently returned from Iran, another is a 50-year-old man from New Rochelle, and the third is his son, a Yeshiva University student, according to the university.
Tuesday, officials said the infected attorney from New Rochelle’s family was also being tested, including his son the Yeshiva University student and a daughter who attended the SAR High School in the Bronx.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-update-new-rochelle-man-self-quarantine/
Have we heard how the 50 yo NY attorney contracted this?
Prayers up for his son, family and all they’ve had contact with.
Scary to think how many.
NH - more on the quarantine skipper
Coronavirus patient ignored self-isolation order to go to business event
By Lee Brown
March 4, 2020 | 8:28am
A hospital worker who became New Hampshire’s first coronavirus patient had been ordered to self-isolate — but went to a college’s business event instead, health officials have revealed.
The selfish Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center staffer showed symptoms after returning from a trip to Italy, and was told to stay home while awaiting the test result, which came back positive Monday, health officials said.
“The first patient, despite having been directed to self-isolate, attended an invitation-only private event on Friday,” the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) warned in a release.
Having defied the first directive, the hospital worker was “issued an official order of isolation” after officially testing positive on Monday, officials said.
A close colleague of his at the hospital then became the Granite State’s second confirmed case on Tuesday, their hospital confirmed.
It left health workers scrambling to contact attendees at the event in neighboring Vermont to tell them to “follow the recommended 14-day self-isolation,” the service said
Now they have the working test kits—they can actually test people as they follow the crumbs...