A husband hid his coronavirus symptoms from a hospital so he could see his wife give birth

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New York - The pregnant woman swore that her husband was healthy and should be at the hospital for the birth of their child. But soon after she welcomed their baby into the world, she started to exhibit symptoms linked to the novel coronavirus.

With the woman ill and doctors scrambling to contain any potential spread inside the maternity wing of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., the husband recently acknowledged to the hospital staff that there was something he had not disclosed: He had been exposed to the coronavirus and was showing symptoms.

On Tuesday, the University of Rochester Medical Center announced the couple and the newborn baby “were asked to quarantine, pending test results, to protect the community” sometime within the past week.

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