One Juror Led to Covid Hotspot in Albany Georgia

[Stallion]

I guess this story is a couple weeks old but instructive-the relatively small area of Albany Georgia now has 120 Deaths which I believe is on par with Dallas Texas:

When more than 100 people were summoned to the Dougherty County Courthouse as potential jurors for a highly-publicized local murder trial in early March, no one knew one of them would become one of the first county residents to test positive for COVID-19.

Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards said the juror who became ill during the trial last month was the first person known to suffer from symptoms later diagnosed as the coronavirus while in the county courthouse.

The juror was one of 14 panelists, including two alternates, who began hearing the “stand your ground” case of local moving company owner Jazzy Huff on March 9, according to Edwards and the county’s clerk of court, Evonne Mull.

See link


https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2020/04/07/juror-zero-how-covid-19-spread-through-the-dougherty-county-courthouse/?slreturn=20200330172647#

[Ilsa]

1. I thought it was from a massive turnout for a funeral.

Far too many people at the church and wake, mingling, hugging one another.

[LeftInTX]

3. It was

The NYT mentioned the juror as a secondary source from the original source

[dem4decades]

4. In fairness, that funeral was BC, Before Coronavirus, people hugged.

The world's changed, in a horrible way, no longer being able to hug people you love.

[DBoon]

2. A warning to people in rural areas

Who think this pandemic will never affect their part of the world.

Who think social distancing is a plot to deprive them of their freedom.

All it takes is one asymptomatic carrier in the wrong place and you have 120 deaths in a matter of weeks.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Made Me Nervous

2&1/2 days with 13 other people in a 10x14 room in mid-March.
After 12 or 14 days I finally felt I'd be OK.
Haven't heard that anybody in the county got it at courthouse.
But, this is a county of nearly 700k, and there's lots of case & deaths. I wouldn't know the detail around 2300 cases.
So, it's still possible.