New York officials traced more than 50 Coronavirus cases back to one attorney who lives in Westchester County

CNN ^ | 03/11/2020 | By Sheena Jones and Christina Maxouris

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In one small suburb on the outskirts of New York City, coronavirus cases jumped from one to more than 100 in less than 10 days.

Now the state's governor is trying to catch up to the virus by setting up a containment area around New Rochelle and deploying the National Guard to assist with food deliveries and clean public spaces.

"We'll go in, we'll clean the schools and assess the situation," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "This will be a period of disruption for the community."

New Rochelle is about 25 miles outside of New York City.

The issue, the governor says, is "a matter of life and death." And it started with one resident.

The 50-year-old attorney, who works near Grand Central Station in Manhattan, tested positive for the virus on March 2 and was hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Cuomo said.

The governor later said the man was New York City's first case of community spread -- meaning officials could not trace the source of his infection.

The man had an underlying respiratory condition that made him vulnerable to the virus but he was stable and improving, officials also said later.

Just two days after the man's positive results, on March 4, his 20-year-old son, a student at New York's Yeshiva University, also tested positive. School officials said he was showing symptoms of the virus.

The wife and 14-year-old daughter of the attorney both also tested positive on the same day.

So did the neighbor who drove him to the hospital.

And a friend of the attorney.

The friend's wife, two sons and daughter tested positive that day too.

The day after, on March 5, the governor says eight other people connected to the attorney tested positive for the virus.

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Stopped is a bad word. This virus cannot be stopped. It can be slowed. And that takes a lot. The advantages to slowing the virus, is that we will have the resources to treat people as they become sick. But we can never stop it. China and Japan have not stopped it. They have put it on hold. They can keep all the business and government closed and stop the travel. But as soon as they open up again, it will be back. Remember it just takes one sick person to bring it all back. So the better word is slow. China and Japan have slowed the progress as they deal with the current patients. As they release the population to go back to their normal activities, the virus will come back. Hopefully they will be more ready when it does.

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So are you suggesting that New York state's response to the outbreak in New Rochelle is some kind of fake?'

Don't you believe that in fact the people associated with Mr. Garduz are sick?

[ifinnegan]

Your questions are non-sequitur to my comments.

Sensationalist reporting does not mean anything is fake or people have not been infected.