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The pandemic hit Albany “like a bomb,” wrote the New York Times last year. Around 90,000 people live in and around Albany, and seventy percent of them are Black, including Johnson and nearly all of her clients.
“You can imagine every Black family either knows somebody or is someone affected by COVID-19,” Johnson told me in a May 2020 interview. “Three or four generations of a family may live in one house, so you’re seeing families with multiple cases across generations at one time. It has been the craziest thing, so much grief, so much pain, but people are persevering with their businesses because they want to provide a life for their families.”
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— Shelby Regan
February 2021 is here with a confetti parade of snowflakes to announce its arrival. It is predicted that whatever little snow we get will soon be erased by a few days of rain. But as I sit watching it on this Monday morning while writing this week’s column, the snow is soft and a background of perfection for the cardinals, wrens, nuthatches, and woodpeckers that are gathering up more seeds from the porch feeder.
On Thursday last, because a member of my household was informed that someone who had tested positive for the coronavirus named him as a possible contact, we all, our household of eight, got tested. Not an easy job as you might suspect. Lo and behold, my 23-year-old grandson and myself were the only ones that tested positive. I am telling you this because I thought it might help others to understand the procedure. We called the hospital Thursday, told them a family member had been called by the board of health because they were named as a possible contact by a person who had tested positive. The hospital made an appointment for us. We drove up to the hospital to the tent erected by the flagpole to the left of the main entrance. We did not even have to get out of the car for the test. The test itself, I felt, was relatively painless. The nurse put a swab in one nostril and counted to three. That one just tickled a bit, then did the same for the second nostril. That one stung a little more, but not at all what I had expected. They are doing the rapid tests, so within an hour we had the results. We received an automatic response on our cell phones from the board of health telling us a contact tracer would be in touch with us soon to tell us the procedure and get names of everyone we had had contact with. In the meantime, we were all quarantined. I called the two people I had had contact with to inform them. Sure enough, I got called by a contact tracer. I almost didn’t get the information because I thought the out-of-state unfamiliar telephone number was a telemarketer so I hung up three times before he reached me. He gave us instructions and we are both quarantined until next Saturday and if we are still free of symptoms, then we are released. We feel so fortunate that so far neither of us have any symptoms and especially the “littles” my four great-grands that live with us were all negative. We miss their entertaining antics around the house as they moved to stay with relatives to stay healthy until we are all clear. I hope this helps you to better understand the procedures that are followed and perhaps remove some of the fears you might have regarding testing.
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