A dozen family members who traveled to St. Louis to celebrate their father’s 99th birthday found themselves all infected by the novel coronavirus.
The family members, who hailed from Plano, Texas, San Francisco, and elsewhere all said they took precautions ahead of the celebration, but that symptoms set soon after the celebrations ended, Fox 4 News reported. “So there’s a total of 12 of us,” Larry Goldsticker, Ralph Goldsticker’s son, told the news outlet. “We were very conscious we thought beforehand.
Everyone quarantined ahead of time. My brother and sister-in-law in San Francisco got tested before they got on an airplane.” But at some point, someone contracted the virus and spread it to others. “No one was ahead of everybody else to say.