“Twenty-one people on the cruise ship Grand Princess, bound for San Francisco from Hawaii, have reported possible coronavirus symptoms. Two people who traveled on the ship recently have tested positive; one has died.” nytimes.com/2020/03/04/wor… my god
“A person who conducted medical screenings at Los Angeles International Airport tested positive for the virus, the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday. The person last worked at the airport on Feb. 21, 8 days before showing symptoms of infection, the agency said”
Awaiting test results after trip to Italy, employee at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire attended a mixer for doctors and Dartmouth College students. 3 days later, he was confirmed as state’s 1st coronavirus case. close contact of man has since tested positive
Students learned of the possible exposure in an email sent out by the university on Tuesday, saying the man had attended the mixer at the college’s Tuck School of Business on Feb. 28. The college said an investigation was underway.
A 10th person in Washington State has died from the coronavirus & several new infections have been confirmed. King County said officials recommend older residents w/underlying health problems stay home, employers have workers telecommute, & cancel events w more than 10 people
Also on Tuesday, Amazon emailed its staff in the Seattle area saying that it had learned that an employee in one of its buildings in the South Lake Union neighborhood had tested positive. The employee had not been to work since Feb. 25, the email said.
Nine people connected to the man who was confirmed as New York’s second case of the new coronavirus have all tested positive for the illness, state officials said on Wednesday.
The new cases included the man’s wife; his son, 20; his daughter, 14; & a neighbor in New Rochelle, NY who drove him to hospital. A friend of the man who spent time “in close proximity” with him also tested positive, as did that man’s wife & 3 of their children, Gov. Cuomo said.
The discovery that the Westchester father, who works w/his wife at a law firm in Manhattan, had the illness set off a search by health officials across region...So far, about 1,000 people were being asked to self-quarantine, Cuomo estimated. The man’s son is student at Yeshiva U.
(would guess, but do not know, the case above connected to the notification AIPAC sent to its policy conference attendees).
WSJ piece on this case: “The patient and his wife went to Bal Harbour, just north of Miami, the weekend of Feb. 15...Mr. de Blasio said the man had also traveled to Israel.” wsj.com/articles/new-y…
