How Covid-19 spread through a Central New York family after March wedding in Ohio

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[link:https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/04/after-a-dream-wedding-the-coronavirus-spreads-pain-and-fear-through-a-cny-family.html|

"What no one knew was that as 125 people moved and sang, something else was dancing along with them: the novel coronavirus.

It was March 13 in Columbus, Ohio. The country had begun to worry about the virus spreading, but most places didn’t begin clamping down until the next week. Ohio had issued a ban on gatherings with more than 100 people the day before the wedding, but the wedding, paid-for and planned for months, was allowed to go forward.

So the Chopay family came from all over Central New York and beyond to celebrate Danielle’s wedding. One cousin flew in from Poland.

The Chopay family’s experience could be a case study of COVID-19. In the days after the virus leapt from person to person at that wedding, it dug into some of them and put them on the edge of death in Syracuse. But it left barely a fingerprint on others, giving them the sniffles or no symptoms at all."

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[Ex Lurker]

1. In theory, no one has immunity

But some people are clearly more resistant than others.

[Cha]

2. That's brutal for their family

[Freddie]

3. My son postponed his April 18 wedding

Thank God. They are probably getting married at a courthouse down there (Florida) and having the reception in his fiancé’s hometown in Ohio hopefully sometime in the fall.