One City’s Fight to Stop the Virus

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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New Rochelle, a suburb north of New York City, has one of the largest clusters of coronavirus infections in the U.S. We visited the community to find out how the containment measures were being implemented and how successful they have been. On today’s episode: Sarah Maslin Nir, a breaking news reporter at The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York created a “containment zone” in New Rochelle last week, hoping to curb the spread of the virus in “the single most troubling area in the state.” Soon after, the National Guard arrived to help implement the measures.New York is among about 10 states that have set up drive-through testing centers, as state and local leaders try to figure out how to safely screen more people.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Vibaro.
0:33.0	This is The Daily.
0:36.0	Today, a suburb north of New York City has become one of the largest clusters of the
0:47.2	coronavirus in the US.
0:51.0	My colleague, Sarah Maslenir, went there.
0:59.4	It's Thursday, March 19.
1:05.6	Sarah, tell us about the past few weeks in this town of New Rochelle, New York.
1:10.7	It began with a local man.
1:13.7	His name is Larry Garbous.
1:16.4	He's a lawyer.
1:17.4	He lives in New Rochelle, which is this suburb about five or so miles north of New York
1:26.1	City's border.
1:28.1	He falls ill about February 27th.
1:32.0	He starts to decline pretty rapidly.
1:34.2	He asks a neighbor to drive him to the hospital and spend several days there really spiraling.
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