COVID Community Cluster Westchester Co New York Grows To Five

[niman]

Daughter, wife, and neighbor who drove father to hospital also positive.

Edited March 4, 2020 by niman

[niman]

Wife, son and daughter of Westchester coronavirus patient test positive for illness, along with neighbor who drove him to the hospital

 

By DENIS SLATTERY and LARRY MCSHANE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |

MAR 04, 2020 | 10:12 AM

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-westchester-man-son-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-20200304-jmndgnvd4bhyfjhmmqmdrbl5u4-story.html

[niman]

The potentially lethal coronavirus spread from a Manhattan lawyer to his wife, son and daughter — along with a good Samaritan neighbor who drove the ailing attorney to the hospital, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday.

The announcement of the four new cases, all linked to the 50-year-old Westchester County resident, brings the total number of infections in New York State to six. Tests for possible coronavirus on patients in Buffalo came back negative, as did the test on the husband of the healthcare worker who became New York’s first case of the virus, the governor said.

“There are going to be dozen and dozens and dozens of people and the more people you test the more will be positive,” the governor warned in announcing the new cases.

The infected lawyer, hospitalized in critical condition at a Manhattan hospital, checked into a suburban hospital on Feb. 27 with respiratory problems but wasn’t diagnosed until four days later. His family members, along with his helpful neighbor, are quarantined at their suburban homes, the governor said.

 

Cuomo will head to Westchester this afternoon to meet with local and school officials.

Officials at Yeshiva University had already announced the 20-year-old son, a student at the Manhattan college, tested positive for the virus.

[niman]

Video of news conference which gives age of son (20M) and daughter (14F) and school closings

 

 

[ConcernedHealthProvider]

Two schools and a synagogue have closed as precaution, what is happening at the hospital? The is no mention of steps to monitor or follow up with the staff, providers or other patients at the “suburban hospital” where this patient was treated for several days prior to diagnosis. Its hard to imagine that they were wearing sufficient PPE since patient presented without known risk factors. Healthcare workers are at particular risk and will be critical to this ongoing response.