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New Jersey coronavirus patient thinks he caught it at Times Square hotel



A New Jersey medical worker who was the state’s first coronavirus patient believes he contracted the illness at a Times Square hotel last weekend, according to a new report.

James Cai, a 32-year-old physician’s assistant, told news station WCBS that he thinks he caught the bug while attending a medical conference at a hotel in the Crossroads of the World.

Cau said he first visited an urgent-care clinic, then went to the emergency room at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he’s remained since Tuesday, according to the outlet.

“It happened so quick,” Cai told the outlet. “The virus is everything. Diarrhea, watery eyes, shortness of breath, chest pain, you name it. High fever. … Every day is getting worse.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that a 32-year-old New Jersey health care provider with the virus had visited a Westin hotel in Midtown and the King David Center nursing and rehab facility in Gravesend, Brooklyn, where the worker saw 11 patients. The worker was wearing a mask at the time, the mayor said.

King David confirmed to The Post on Monday that Cai was the worker.

Cai told WCBS he doesn’t agree with some health officials’ advice that face masks are unnecessary.

“A lot of people say, ‘It’s OK, don’t wear masks.’ I don’t believe that,” Cai said.
 
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vols40 said:
My assertion was that during flu season these facilities should do more to help minimize the spread of illness.
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You stated that the fact that they have had multiple deaths is evidence that they are not properly sanitizing their facility. The point I’m making is that there is NO evidence that they are not properly keeping the facility clean. Multiple deaths in a nursing home is to be expected once one person there has contracted the virus due to the way it spreads and how it effects the elderly.
 
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BigOrangeAl 1979 said:
Some died in China that’s all I can think of
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From what I've been reading, all of the Chinese "hospitals" that were built are basically quarantine buildings with no medical care. Some had a slot that food and water was delivered through. I think it was a BBC article.
I don't trust anything reported by the Chinese government.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
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That reminds me of the Man or Astroman? show I saw at Moose's in the early 2000's. They came out to set up their equipment in those suits.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
From what I've been reading, all of the Chinese "hospitals" that were built are basically quarantine buildings with no medical care. Some had a slot that food and water was delivered through. I think it was a BBC article.
I don't trust anything reported by the Chinese government.
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They had bars on the windows. We all knew they weren't "hospitals."
 
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rjd970 said:
Tinfoil hat time - anybody think that media induced panic driving the market down is intentional so the heavy hitter investors who have shorted the hot market can finally cash in? Once the shorts and insurance are called in the media hysteria will magically go away and be explained away as it being “warmer weather”?

I don’t know, the media is generally stupid, no doubt, but some of this seems overly-intentional given the cold facts concerning this virus. This is not the plague. It just isn’t. It’s barely the Flu.
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*sigh*

Conspiracy theories. Human nature to try to rationalize the irrational.

Ain't no Wizard of Oz here folks.
 
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Matt2496 said:
@hog88 I agree with what you said earlier. The panic from coronavirus is causing more harm than the virus itself.
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How can you possibly know that? Such a Trump thing to say. No math, no science, incomplete information at every level. Yet you feel you can weight the quantification of both at this stage?

Quickly becoming the Make-A-Wish presidency.
 
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lawgator1 said:
How can you possibly know that? Such a Trump thing to say. No math, no science, incomplete information at every level. Yet you feel you can weight the quantification of both at this stage?

Quickly becoming the Make-A-Wish presidency.
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There definitely is a lack of information on this virus, and the panic from that is what's driving the stock market's crash.

At the same time, we DO know that this primarily affects the elderly.
 
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Matt2496 said:
There definitely is a lack of information on this virus, and the panic from that is what's driving the stock market's crash.
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That's not entirely true. There is a factual basis from which they can forecast that demand for many things is going to go down: energy, travel, entertainment, etc. I agree that the level of that decline is speculative at this point, but there is a rational basis for it. Unlike some other speculative thinking from the Make-A-Wish president.
 
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