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How the Coronavirus Spread From One Patient to 1,000 Now Quarantined in New York
As of Thursday, a total of 22 people in New York had the virus, according to city and state officials
Yeshiva University has canceled classes and events until after March 10; a student and his father have contracted the novel coronavirus.T
Religious schools have been shut.
Some festivities for the Jewish holiday of Purim are up in the air.
And officials in Westchester County, N.Y., estimate 1,000 people are quarantined at home after a well-attended bat mitzvah and funeral.
The case of a seriously ill father with deep roots in a modern Orthodox community shows how quickly coronavirus can spread in circles that live, go to school and attend services together. As of Thursday, officials said 18 people in Westchester had been diagnosed with Covid-19, including the man to whom these cases are connected.
How a Quarantine GrowsSince a New Rochelle, N.Y., man fell ill Feb. 22, residents across the region are under quarantine.
Patient returned to his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., after a trip to Miami the weekend of Feb. 15.
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Patient attended services at Young Israel of New Rochelle Feb. 22 and 23. Attendees are now required to self-quarantine until at least March 8.
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A neighbor drove the patient to a Bronxville hospital Feb. 27. The neighbor later tested positive, and his children are being tested.
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The patient was transferred to a Manhattan hospital March 2.
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One New Rochelle resident went to a bat mitzvah in White Plains on March 1, and later tested positive for the virus. Three sisters who also attended were sent home from their Baltimore school March 4 and are now in quarantine.
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SAR High School in the Bronx, where the patient’s 14-year-old daughter attends, closed March 3.
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Officials announced that colleagues at the patient’s Manhattan law firm are being tested.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on March 4 the patient’s wife and children tested positive and are quarantined at home. Yeshiva University, where the patient’s 20-year-old son attends, cancelled classes.
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Sources: state and school officials (case details); ESRI (roads); Google (locations)
Rabbis said the connectedness of their community is a great strength, but when a contagious illness strikes, the vast network of links among families can make it especially hard to control infection.
“When you’re in a tightknit kind of society, there’s lots of opportunities for interaction,” said Rabbi Yonah Berman at YCT Rabbinical School, in the Bronx’s Riverdale section, which has been affected. “When people are told to step back from that interaction, that’s harder than it would be in communities where individuals keep more to themselves.”
Rabbis throughout the New York City area are adjusting the customs of a traditional Jewish culture as they tried to halt the escalation of illness.
They sent congregations a range of warnings: Please don’t kiss the Torah or mezuzah, a small scroll in a case attached to the doorway of many homes. Please don’t come to services or ritual baths if you feel any symptoms. And please don’t reach out to shake hands lest someone feel obliged to reciprocate.
A Westchester attorney became the second person in New York to test positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday. His wife, son and daughter were diagnosed with it as well, state officials said. Only the attorney is hospitalized in serious condition. His family is in quarantine at home in New Rochelle. A neighbor and friends—five people in a local family—also tested positive for the virus, officials said.
As of Thursday, a total of 22 people in New York had the virus, according to state officials.
After the attorney was diagnosed, his synagogue, Young Israel of New Rochelle, said it was halting services through Sunday because of potential exposure tied to him. Further, county health officials said people who attended services there on Feb. 22, and a funeral and a bat mitzvah on Feb. 23, must self-quarantine until at least Sunday.
Samuel Heilman, a Queens College professor of sociology quarantined after going to the Feb. 23 funeral, said hundreds of mourners attended the funeral because it was for a founder of the synagogue.
Many congregants “are neighbors and friends, and live within walking distance,” he said, and after weekly religious services they have a reception. “Everyone is eating at the same time, talking and touching each other,” he said. “All of those things can increase the likelihood of transfer.”
Westchester County officials alerted residents about these quarantine rules quickly through email blasts, social media, rabbis and school leaders.
State and county officials said they were working together to identify the universe of people who might have been exposed to individuals known to have coronavirus.
This is the first instance of community spread in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that such a case could have happened anywhere—“and it will.”
The governor called the case “one of the more complicated situations that we’ve come across because of the number of interconnections that this family has presented.”
Each infected person is being investigated in an attempt to limit the number of additional infections. The governor said people in self-isolation are being contacted by the county, state, schools or other private organizations.
The school attended by the daughter of the attorney, SAR High School, said it would remain closed until Wednesday, and its lower school, SAR Academy, will reopen Monday. Some classes were held online.
Yeshiva University, where the attorney’s son is a student, has canceled classes and events until after March 10.
Young Israel synagogue of New Rochelle, N.Y., where the New Rochelle family who contracted Covid-19 are congregants and where many people have been quarantined.
Rabbi Reuven Fink of Young Israel of New Rochelle said in an email to his congregation that obeying the quarantine order is a “sacred obligation.”
The rabbi explained practices that could shift. For example, he said people who need to say Kaddish, a mourner’s prayer by a quorum of 10 men, could do it after the quarantine is lifted.
Hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews live in New York City, Westchester and Long Island’s Suffolk and Nassau counties, according to experts. Many travel for events.
The Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth, N.J., alerted families Wednesday night that some members of the Elizabeth Jewish community who attended the New Rochelle bat mitzvah last month were in self-quarantine, and none had shown signs of illness.
Three sisters were sent home Wednesday from Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore, a private school, because they went to a March 1 bat mitzvah in White Plains, N.Y., attended by one of the New Rochelle residents who tested positive, school officials said. They said the girls showed no symptoms and are in quarantine.
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The virus hit shortly before Purim, a holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia (aka, Iran). It will be celebrated next week, on Monday night and Tuesday, when families often visit dozens of homes to drop off gifts of food.
Several rabbis suggested families scale back such plans.
How the Coronavirus Spread From One Patient to 1,000 Now Quarantined in New York
Who got the reynaldo “the jews did this” gif
Nothing to worry about though brehs just like the flu
Almost a 16 percent mortality rate but just the reg flu brehs
Italy's mortality rate is 6.01% that's about 60 x higher then the flu. They are seriously compromised, and the US and Canada should be monitoring this situation closely. Unfortunately our leaders are incompetent though.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Extremely disappointed with the Canadian government response at all levels so far.
They've discouraged the use of masks, promoted large group gatherings, did not restrict travel, do not screen travelers when they arrive, are expecting people to self-quarantine when they come back (which they don't), reject testing requests at the beginning stage of the virus, spread misinformation about community spreading when it has happened in multiple countries and announce points of contact days after confirming a infection
Entropy Fan
Superstar
They’re just reporting accurately. China has 50x the population and had the initial outbreak.They probably had like 2k deaths a day and underreported. If you died of it before you got tested you didn’t get counted and had very very few test kits
Jamal514
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Extremely disappointed with the Canadian government response at all levels so far.
They've discouraged the use of masks, promoted large group gatherings, did not restrict travel, do not screen travelers when they arrive, are expecting people to self-quarantine when they come back (which they don't), reject testing requests at the beginning stage of the virus, spread misinformation about community spreading when it has happened in multiple countries and announce points of contact days after confirming a infection
bytch ass Trudeau scared to ruffle feathers like usual.
Extremely disappointed with the Canadian government response at all levels so far.
They've discouraged the use of masks, promoted large group gatherings, did not restrict travel, do not screen travelers when they arrive, are expecting people to self-quarantine when they come back (which they don't), reject testing requests at the beginning stage of the virus, spread misinformation about community spreading when it has happened in multiple countries and announce points of contact days after confirming a infection
Liberal government
plus only country that is bailing out it’s citizens who continue to go on cruises s a
DJ Paul's Arm
Veteran
bytch ass Trudeau scared to ruffle feathers like usual.
After what happened with Huawei and his past coming out as a racist, he's scared as fukk
Government is incompetent at all levels right now: municipal, provincial, federal. Why is a graphic designer the health minister
Jamal514
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Are BC and Ontario even trying to fight the outbreak? Ya’ll gettin hit
It seems like everyday, the Quebec government is opening Covid 19 specific clinics and quarantine centers.