Rhode Island teen tests positive for COVID-19

[RandySF]

Breaking via Boston Globe.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Heard this earlier. He is only a teen ? From RI? Wth?

[Igel]

2. Minors are less often affected.

Presumably that just means asymptomatic, or barely noticeable symptoms.

It doesn't mean they're Teflon.

[Tipperary]

3. One would assume there are some symptoms.

Why else would he have been tested?

[Tanuki]

4. She had been on a school trip to Italy and an adult on the same trip is in hospital

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/01/metro/health-department-reports-first-case-coronavirus-rhode-island/?event=event12

..."A teenager has become the second Rhode Island victim of the coronavirus, and state health officials said she was on the same school trip to Europe last month as the first victim, a man in his 40s who was hospitalized.

The trip was sponsored by Saint Raphael Academy, a Catholic high school in Pawtucket; those on the trip visited Italy, France, and Spain.

In addition, health workers have administered a test for the virus to an adult in her 30s who was on the same trip and works at Achievement First Academy in Providence.

Saint Raphael Academy will be closed all week, state officials said. Earlier Sunday, the school announced that a member of the St. Ray’s community had the first “presumptive positive” case of coronavirus in Rhode Island."...(more)