The Biden administration says it will have enough COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate all adults in the US by the end of May. The number of Americans willing to take the vaccine is also increasing.
New York lawyer dubbed the state s COVID-19 patient zero says one year later that he was NOT a super-spreader because he tried to keep to himself and recalls being told about the pandemic when he woke up from a 10-day coma
Lawrence Garbuz was diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 2, 2020
He had been to his synagogue for a funeral and for a bar and bat mitzvah - and was commuting between New York City and New Rochelle
He still does not know how he got the virus; experts say it was likely in the US in 2019
Garbuz woke up from an induced coma on March 13, unaware that the world had essentially stopped
moving in in that community. whit leads us off. reporter: tonight, new york ordering the first containment zone in the u.s. with the number of infections in the state soaring to at least 173. the governor sending the national guard to new rochelle, a suburban hot spot north of manhattan. it is a dramatic action. this is literally a matter of life and death. reporter: that zone of containment consisting of a one-mile radius around the young israel synagogue, where dozens of people were exposed by that infected attorney. schools and buildings that hold large gatherings will shut down for two weeks. most businesses and grocery stores will remain open. people will be allowed to enter and leave. you re not containing people, it s facilities. reporter: the wife of lawrence garbuz, that attorney who was the first in the area to get the virus, releasing a statement saying, as many have asked, of course he went to the doctor and did so many times. no one figured it out and it even to
flare of community spread is in westchester county, with the majority of the state s cases. this is the hot spot. one of the hot spots nationally. reporter: officials say dozens of cases traced back to one man, a sickened attorney named lawrence garbuz. his case was complicated by a previous condition. his wife, who is also infected along with their two children, saying the rest of the family is in good condition and that her husband remains critical. but she is very hopeful of his full recovery. that case, resulting in a wave of school closures throughout the county. multiple universities in the state, including columbia, hofstra, and fordham, also cancelling classes. new york city s mayor suggesting dramatic steps to keep the elderly safe. even if you love your grandchildren, for example, you don t want to go see your grandchildren if they happen to be sick. even if it s a common cold, you just don t want to do it. reporter: in washington, d.c., several hundred people order