A New York man reportedly hid his COVID-19 symptoms in order to assist his wife in delivery, and she is now showing signs of the illness.
According to Democrat & Chronicle,
“A man who had been exposed to the coronavirus and who was himself feeling sick hid his symptoms from staff at Strong Memorial Hospital so he could join his expectant wife in the maternity center.”
The unidentified man only confessed, when his wife started to show symptoms of the viral pandemic.
“The mother became symptomatic shortly after delivering. That’s when the significant other admitted his potential exposure and that he was feeling symptomatic,” Chip Partner, a spokesman for the University of Rochester Medical Center, which includes Strong Memorial, told the Democrat.
This situation prompted the hospital to put in place a new strategy. Visitors must now take the temperature of people who enter the maternity ward. Across the state, other hospitals have tightened their security measures to protect the patients, healthcare workers, as well as visitors.
Before this incident, some New York hospitals stated they were blocking expecting fathers and relatives, but that was blocked by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
According to CNN, as of today, the number of COVID-19 increased by 14,000 in the U.S., in just a matter of hours. More than 210,000 people have been infected and 4,669 have died.
In the US, an estimated 25% of coronavirus carriers have no symptoms, said the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Information that we have pretty much confirmed now is that a significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. That may be as many as 25%,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told NPR.
As of now, most states are either under curfew and/or required to stay inside with the exception of essential day-to-day needs. This quarantine is expected to last until April 30 and even June 10th in the state of Virginia.
