Richard Engel: New York/tristate area is a growing and emerging coronavirus hotspot.

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6. My gosh, what a tough decision.

Part of me feels like it's early enough that her friend has a low probability of having come in direct contact with it (walking through someone's cloud of sneezed or coughed mucas), but the first thing I would do is ask her/him they've been around anyone who is sick (even just a cold) and play it waaaaaaay safe.

The truly scary (and literally unavoidable) thing is, that there is probably an extremely high chance especially if anyone takes a subway, train or bus with any frequency that we've at least been within 100ft of someone who is at the very least carrying it.

Serious business this.