Coronavirus patient released in San Antonio went to North Star Mall before returning to quarantine

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Coronavirus-patient-released-in-San-Antonio-went-15098649.php

By Mark Dunphy Updated 11:54 am CST, Monday, March 2, 2020

An evacuee from China who turned up "weakly positive" for the coronavirus after being released from quarantine over the weekend visited the North Star Mall before returning to isolation, authorities said during a news conference Monday.

The evacuee was out in the San Antonio community for slightly over 12 hours after she was released from quarantine, said Anita Kurian, assistant director of the Metropolitan Health District.

After her release, the evacuee checked into a Holiday Inn hotel near the airport. She took a hotel shuttle to North Star Mall, one of the region's busiest retail outlets, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Kurian said.

Officials said the evacuee was browsing and spent very little time in stores or talking to anyone. She spent much of her time at the mall eating alone at the food court.

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[In_The_Wind]

1. What was she thinking!?!

[Dennis Donovan]

10. I think this is more a problem with testing than her not following orders

She was told she was OK, so she left quarantine and did what she'd normally do. Someone made a mistake with testing her at some poitn.

[Demovictory9]

2. she rode in the shuttle with the driver. that's a bit selfish.

and she had to interact with a cashier to order that food

[misanthrope]

5. Yep, she likely handled cash

Money is filthy stuff, both metaphorically and literally.

[mr_lebowski]

3. This story isn't making ANY sense to me, and I don't just mean what the person did makes no sense nt

[Throck]

4. Weakly Positive?

WTF.

You're either positive or not.

[Tanuki]

7. Per the article, she was asymptomatic and had 2 negative lab tests,

so she met the CDC guidelines for release from quarantine. After release, the third test, with the weakly positive result and back, so they called her back into quarantine. I think she had been led to think she was healed and no longer potentially dangerous at the time she visited the mall.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Yeah, I don't think she's running around like Typhoid Mary

She received an all clear so she went back to living her life.

What this illustrates more than anything is the ongoing problems with testing for the virus.

[GemDigger]

6. Either the medical staff needs education on Covid or she neglected what they told her.

If people are neglecting what they are supposed to do then they should get charged with endangering the public. No mercy for idiots!

[JCMach1]

9. Well, TX is infected now...

just a matter of time