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
ISRAEL
Israeli School Principal & 9th Grader Have COVID-19, Over 1,000 Students & 5,000 Soccer Fans Isolated, Health Ministry: “Spread Of Virus Inevitable”
March 4, 2020 9:25 am
Prof. Itamar Grotto, the Deputy Director-General of Israel’s Health Ministry stated on Wednesday that the wide-scale spread of the coronavirus in Israel is inevitable after a vice-principal of an elementary school and a 9th-grade student were diagnosed with the virus, requiring over 1,000 students to be put into quarantine.
Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Tuesday night that three more Israelis were diagnosed with the coronavirus, raising the total number of cases in Israel to 15.
Hmmm ... any names given, for these two NH guys??
Especially the one who DEFIED his isolation orders?
(We know the N.Y. lawyer’s name and biz name.)
Needless to say, all of these folks need to be tested...