Coronavirus has spread throughout NYC and EVERYONE should assume they have been exposed to COVID 19 - with the threat lasting until fall, New York City officials tell the UN
Daily Mail
March 15, 2020
New York City officials warned the UN diplomatic community that everyone in the city should assume they've been in contact with the novel coronavirus and threats of proliferating cases are projected to last until the fall.
On Saturday New York City commissioner Penny Abeywardena in the Mayor's Office for International Affairs and officials with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene held a briefing for foreign delegations in the city.
'Everyone in New York should assume that they have been in contact with COVID 19,' a read-out at the conference call said, according to Foreign Policy.
In the Saturday briefing medical officials stressed that the city is 'in the mitigation phase of the outbreak' and the virus could threaten the health of residents until as late as September. 'This means that all individuals should assume that they have had some contact with the virus and practice maximum-possible social distancing; most cases will be mild and medical care should only be sought in urgent, worsening, or vulnerable cases.'
Some health experts have projected that the novel coronavirus will rapidly spread then ebb for the warmer spring and summer seasons just like the common cold and flu, however some researchers point out that the virus is still spreading in warmer parts of the globe despite higher temperatures.
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