NEW ROCHELLE (JTA) — The attorney at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, has emerged from his coma.
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Lawrence Garbuz “is awake and alert and seems to be on the road to full recovery,” his wife, Adina, said in a post on Facebook. She has not seen him in person, but communicated through FaceTime.
Adina Garbuz said her husband had no idea what was wrong with him when he awoke, and asked her to make sure that others were aware of his illness so they would not get it, unaware of the community’s lockdown.
A one-mile containment zone has been set up around New Rochelle with the hope of slowing down the spread of COVID-19.
“Realizing now that it is widespread, he is trying to comprehend a world where no one goes out, no social gatherings, no religious services, no Purim!! But he seems to be quickly adding it all up,” she wrote.
Originally diagnosed with pneumonia, Garbuz had been on a ventilator since March 1, The New York Times reported.
Adina Garbuz and two of her children, as well as a neighbor who drove her husband to the hospital, all contracted COVID-19.
Finally some good new during a difficult week
Boruch hashem
May the brochos continue to cholim
Maybe now he can explain what he did to bring the virus to ny
a refuah sheleima
Great news!!
Hi Jewish Guy: Covid 19 (corona virus) is different from many other infections in that people can have very high levels of virus with “viral shedding” way before they have any symptoms whatsoever. This means that people can be contagious long before they have any idea that they are sick!
With most other infections, people get sick and their viral load increases as their symptoms get worse and worse. So people feel sick and can sense that anyone they’re in contact with might catch the illness. They know that they had better limit contact with others so that nobody else will develop the symptoms they have. With Corona virus, the person does NOT feel at all sick yet but is already unknowingly spreading virus particles from their respiratory tract. (info. from Mayo Clinic)
Hey, Jewishguy: He did not bring any virus. It simply hitched a ride on him with absolutely none of his consent. Nature does stuff like that sometimes. This caring person would never do anything like that out of negligence, and certainly not deliberately. Most people wouldn’t. Would you?
BH!!!!
Boruch Hashem! May we continue to hear good news.
B”H. So very happy for them!
Greetings from Tzfat. Glad to hear this! Baruch HaShem. You should all have a refuah shelaimah…
Cute couple.
Baruch Hashem. NOW SHUT DOWN the yeshivot that are still staying open