1,000 Into Quarantine In Westchester, Bronx: Cuomo

[In_The_Wind]

WHITE PLAINS, NY — About 1,000 people are expected to go into quarantine in Westchester County and the Bronx after a family and neighbor in New Rochelle tested positive for coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon. The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus increased to six in New York.

"They will be contacted; between county, state and private organizations they'll be given information on what that means," he said.

The affected people include congregants and attendees at recent events at Young Israel of New Rochelle, eight staffers at New York Presbyterian-Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, students and staff at the SAR Academy in Riverdale, some people at Yeshiva University and members of a hospitalized man's Midtown Manhattan law firm.


They're all on the list of people who may have come in contact with a New Rochelle family with coronavirus: the father, who is hospitalized, his wife, 14-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son; and the neighbor who drove the 50-year-old man to Lawrence Hospital. SEE: 6 Now Confirmed With Coronavirus In NY.

The neighbor's children are also being tested, Cuomo said.
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[dewsgirl]

1. Is it just me or are the blue states the only ones even bothering to quarantine?

[customerserviceguy]

5. The blue states

have seen the most cases of this virus. It makes sense that it would invade on the coasts, but it soon will be everywhere in the US.

[dewsgirl]

7. There have been rumors of several cases across Florida

for weeks now.

[customerserviceguy]

8. Perhaps

but if the disease is most harmful to older persons, clearly those would not just be rumors in Florida, of all places.

[napi21]

2. Where are they going to house 1,000 people, understanding this is just the beginning! n/t

[Squinch]

3. If they aren't sick, they're quarantining at home.

[Newest Reality]

4. OK,

These people are being quarantined. Maybe they can afford to do that.

What happens with people who cannot afford to even miss one day of work or that have no health insurance? They are most likely going to be wiped out by the consequences of a quarantine. Since that represents roughly forty-percent of the workforce, the real problems in the country that are not being addressed will become very evident.

Homeless people will not be able to self-quarantine, so I guess that will provide a Fascist bonanza for Trump's scapegoating, because camps may be the final solution as far as his regime is concerned.

[In_The_Wind]

6. Two weeks of lost wages will be a burden most cannot handle.

Jobs will be lost.

Production of necessary goods will be down.

Things are going from bad to much worse overnight.

[customerserviceguy]

9. A friend from Westchester

texted "If you haven't gone to Costco in Westchester by now, don't bother. They're out of bottled water and toilet paper."

We did our stocking up at Costco in Myrtle Beach yesterday, business was brisk, but not overcrowded, and they were bringing out pallets of TP and paper towels as fast as they were emptying on the floor.

[napi21]

10. I never knew people did that in the North. Moved from PA. to SC 30+ years ago.

The first thing that amazed me was every time there was some sort of warning (slippy rds, tornado warning, & OH NO-possible snow flurry) everybody ran to the store for bread & TP! We've moved 3 times since SC and it seems people do that in all the southern States, but not the Northeast, at least nowhere we lived. In NY really surprises me.