Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suggested that he and his wife could be infected with a coronavirus almost two months ago and said they both may have even been the «zero patients» in the United States.
69-year-old billionaire technologist, told USA Today that he and Janet Wozniak became ill, «the worst flu of their lives» after a visit to Southeast Asia in January.
«Check a bad cough Janet — Wozniak wrote on Twitter on Monday, March 2. — Began 4 Jan. We just returned from China and, perhaps, both were zero patients in the United States.»
Wozniak told the newspaper that both had a sore throat and was coughing on returning to the United States. According to him, after the trip he canceled appearances in Las Vegas, because I lost the voice.
«We cancelled everything to go home, but I couldn’t get out of bed for two days, he added. — I told everyone that I was sick and stayed away from almost all in Vegas.»
Wozniak said that his wife was coughing up blood so I went to the hospital, where doctors said that the disease is not similar to «American flu».
«We were not able to be tested for the coronavirus], he said. If our return from Southeast Asia took place today, we certainly would be tested and quarantined those symptoms that we had. But then it was not considered important.»
He said that he appealed to the CDC, but got a letter with a reminder that the couple should wash their hands.
«Then it was not testing this COVID-19, he told the newspaper. In the end, they had a test, but you could do it only through the CDC, and they won’t test people like me and Janet, whose symptoms are long gone.»
Later, Janet confirmed to USA Today that she was diagnosed with sinusitis. As Wozniak called his words about patient zero «kind of joke», adding that the gastrointestinal symptoms the couple are not typical for the coronavirus.
According to the CDC, symptoms COVID-19, which appear two to 14 days after exposure, include cough, fever and shortness of breath.
In the United States more than 100 people were infected with coronavirus in at least 11 States. In Washington state, killed 6 people, including four elderly residents from a single nursing home.
