Family breaks quarantine to attend school dance and pre-party

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The first confirmed coronavirus case in St. Louis and Missouri was announced on Saturday. A 20-year-old woman who was studying in Italy tested positive at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.

She was released from the hospital and told to self-quarantine with her parents at home on Thursday.

Hours later the father and sister of the infected woman broke quarantine and went to a father-daughter Villa Duchesne dance Saturday night at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton. They also apparently attended a pre-dance gathering at the house of a Villa student. The daughter is the younger sister of the woman who has Coronavirus.

Now the entire Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill school will be closed on Monday.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said Sunday that the patient’s family had been told on Thursday to self quarantine at their home in Ladue.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported County health officials told the father on Sunday “that he must remain in his home or they will issue a formal quarantine that will require him and the rest of his family to stay in their home by the force of law.”

The schools are independent Catholic schools in Frontenac. Villa is an all-girls school for grades seven through 12, while Oak Hill serves coed preschoolers through sixth graders.

Their Catholic upbringing would have taught them to be kinder to others and not expose people to illness for selfish reasons.

A “handful” of seniors from John Burroughs School also may have been exposed to the virus Saturday when they gathered at the house where the pre-dance event had been held earlier.

The 20-year-old woman was on a plane and an Amtrak, and could have infected others there as well.


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Robert Howard
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Robert Howard
4 years ago

If citizens can’t do the right thing and self quarantine when the doc instructs us to do so, Big Brother will be more than happy to help us oblige. Common sense and respect for others will go a long way to preserving our way of life in the 20th century, this was a very foolhardy and selfish move on the part of this family.

Jen
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Jen
4 years ago

I can’t stand selfish people….there’s a lot of selfish/and ignorant people around.

HonorAmerica
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HonorAmerica
4 years ago

Reprehensible behavior to place the lives of others in what could be mortal danger is criminal, and should be treated as such. This vile man and the cretin in NH that did the same is as dangerous if not more so than a drunk driver or a madman with an illegal fire arm in a mall. This stupid idiot needs an ankle bracelet along with the other members of his contaminated family. To endanger the lives of children and adults is egregious act of unconscionable selfishness.

herbert r richmond
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herbert r richmond
4 years ago

Arrogant self-centered people do not care about the safety of others only their own pleasures matter.

Tim Kuehl
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Tim Kuehl
4 years ago

A prime example of the respect for others from the “my feces has no odor” crowd. These selfish people don’t even respect each other. And my observation isn’t because these people have more monetary wealth than I do making me jealous, I’m not. I may not have their money, I don’t need it. My labors over the past 50+ years have provided me with enough to cover my needs and that satisfies me. But most importantly, in the end I have wealth that money can’t buy and this selfish little girl and others like her, need to learn that.