05-08-2020, 03:50 PM
(05-08-2020, 11:52 AM)M T Wrote:(04-12-2020, 03:03 AM)magnus Wrote: Well, this news bit is the opposite of this thread topic.
https://www.wcnc.com/mobile/article/news...beca4104c4
A woman who hasn't left her house in 3 weeks tested positive for coronavirus. She does live with her husband (though separate room) and had groceries delivered once (apparently delivery person later tested positive). Source of transmission unclear.
Update on this:
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health...beca4104c4
(Alert: same link, updated content).
Symptoms appeared Mar 22. Groceries delivery was Mar. 20. Trip to pharmacy was Mar 18.
The article now says an epidemiologist claims it was a keypad at the pharmacy. Why that rather than the door handle, a shopping basket, a credit card or cash handed back to her, or the air at the pharmacy, isn't said. Unless they have video of someone with Covid-19 coughing into their hand and then using the keypad, I don't know how they could pick one thing over the others. (Presumably groceries were discounted as 2 days is very low for incubation time.)
Thanks for the update, MT.
So what we also learned is that "hasn't left the house in 3 weeks" while true, is misleading, because the original article didn't mention that she got her first symptoms 2.5 weeks prior (or 4 days after she last left her house).
Well, regardless, it's good to hear she survived.
