In Good Ole Missouri: Missouri hair stylist with coronavirus worked while symptomatic, exposed dozen

[LovingA2andMI]

A hair stylist in Springfield, Missouri, exposed as many as 91 people to coronavirus after working at a salon for eight days while symptomatic, health officials said Friday.

The exposed include 84 Great Clips customers and, potentially, seven coworkers, said Clay Goddard, director of the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. The condition of the stylist, who was not identified, was not revealed.

So far, no other positive case connected to the stylist has been confirmed, but the county is nonetheless facing "a glut of cases," Goddard said.

Those exposed at the salon would be offered tests.

"The good news is both the clients and the hairstylists were masked" at the time of exposure, he said.

Goddard said at a news conference Friday that more cases like this would quickly strain Springfield's ability to care for patients

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-hair-stylist-coronavirus-worked-while-symptomatic-exposed-dozens-clients-n1213561.

[dem4decades]

1. Who would have ever thought?

[texasfiddler]

2. Perfect time to open up Branson

[Blue Owl]

5. Branson, eh?

Can almost see the Coronavirus perking up at the mere mention of it...

[uponit7771]

3. Hmmm, if she were ...NOTABLY ... symptomatic no one else said anything to her or is this one of

... those cases were the person might of felt fine and looked fine and still had the virus?

We need testing

[yardwork]

6. Symptomatic means she had symptoms. The article doesn't say what they were.

Currently, the CDC reports 7 different symptoms associated with the illness. But that list keeps changing. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html

It's possible this person had mild symptoms and didn't realize she had COV2.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. It's like having millions of Typhoid Marys out there.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. That is why I am wearing beanies to cover up my hair. nt

[Alliepoo]

8. I'm questioning if all of the clients

Did, indeed, have masks on. Too many stupes out there that I’m seeing (at least here in central Ohio) without them. I’m thinking that if they’re in such a rush to get their hair done that they might be part of the population that poo-poo’s masks and the possibility of contracting the Corona.