According to a new report, an upscale Connecticut community became a COVID-19 super-spreader, partially assisted by secrecy among residents, who compared a coronavirus diagnosis to “having an STD”
Photo: Jasni Ulak /Getty Images/EyeEm Though public-health experts predict that, eventually, 40 to 70 percent of the world will likely contract COVID-19 sometime this year, it is only March, and in many parts of the United States, it’s possible to not yet know someone affected. That will change, and already is, in “hot spots” like New York and Washington State.
Will Haskell, the state senator who represents Westport , told the Times the comparison isn’t crazy, and says he’s been fielding “frantic” calls from nervous constituents. Haskell warned that other communities who follow Westport’s secrecy are likely to experience outbreaks of their own. Obviously, nobody wants to get the coronavirus, but the disease is neither partisan nor prejudiced; all age groups and all races can be infected. And one mitigation effort, known as contact tracing, requires those who do become sick to let others know, so that they can self-isolate themselves, reducing the likelihood of spread.
Even if we were able to identify every positive diagnosis of COVID-19, says Desai, our resources are limited such that health-care systems must balance safety with supply. “If we have a health-care worker who might have COVID-19, if you really quarantined everyone they’d been in contact with in the last couple of weeks, that might be the entire emergency room that you’re quarantining — every doctor, nurse, respiratory therapist, etc.,” he says.
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