Arizona Reporter Tests Positive

KNXV (Phoenix) Data Analyst Reporter Garrett Archer said that he and his wife were sitting down to have some coffee. “I poured a glass of Jameson Cold Brew coffee, which I thought looked interesting.”

Then it struck him.

“I thought, ‘I can’t smell this at all.’”

His wife found a balsam wood candle. No dice.

“She was like, ‘Great, you have COVID.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I probably do.’ That was the last personal interaction we’ve had since. I moved into the guest room at that point.”

Archer said that he isn’t sure how he contracted the virus that he’s spent so many hours reporting on.

“Who knows?” he said. “I do not know how I got this. I can’t really point to anything.”

But then he admits to doing what the CDC has advised people not to do.

He traveled.

Archer says that he and his family went to Las Vegas to visit his brother over New Year’s, he said, but they tried to stay safe.

He started having symptoms 13 or 14 days after returning; he believes it's rare for symptoms to show up that late after possible exposure.

“Like everybody we’ve been fairly cautious,” he said. “We do everything we’re supposed to do.”

He believes he probably contracted it from exposure at the grocery store.

Always good to know that as the pandemic continues its hold on the United States, that one of those that is informing viewers about the virus is being “fairly cautious.”

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H/T Arizona Republic