These people were more concerned with their wallets than with their health.
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Rockland County had to issue citations with possible fines on Wednesday to persuade eight people infected with coronavirus at a party to meet contact trackers, The Journal News reported.
The eight partygoers, all in their 20s, attended a larger gathering on June 17 where the host already had symptoms of COVID-19, according to The Journal News. Despite testing positive, they declined to speak to the health department until threatened with fines of $ 2,000 a day.
“It worked,” local health official Dr. Patricia Ruppert told CNN.
The subpoenas were issued on Wednesday and six people served the same day, CNN reported. The other two spoke to officials Thursday and no fines were issued.
After the July 17 party, the twentysomethings also partied on June 20 and 27 in New City (not New York), according to The Journal News. His contacts at all three meetings are now being tracked by county officials.
“Most people cooperate with us, but because of the small number that don’t, they have hung us up, given us very small amounts of information, and then refused to give more,” Ruppert told CNN. “[They] we have been told that they neither want nor need to provide information. “
That is, until the citations fell.
“It’s amazing how smart some people got,” Rockland County Executive Ed Day told CNN.
More than 600 people in Rockland County have died from coronaviruses, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins. The county has reported more than 13,000 infections since the pandemic began.
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