West Hollywood mayor, who tested positive, describes life with the coronavirus

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For West Hollywood Mayor John D'Amico, a positive coronavirus test came amid planning the city's emergency response.

to combat the disease’s spread. That day, city staffers were ordered to leave work. Facilities were deep-cleaned. City Hall remains closed.

D’Amico said that maybe because West Hollywood has lived through a health crisis before, there’s a certain hopeful assumption that is shining through: that people who test positive willAs to how he got the coronavarius? D’Amico said he has a possible idea.The mayor said his husband, Keith Rand, a therapist, had attended a conference of the American Group Psychotherapy Assn. in New York in early March.

On March 17, he had a fever all day, he said. D’Amico wrote to his doctor, who practices in Mid-Wilshire, and was told to come by the doctor’s office, park in the parking lot and leave his headlights on. He got a coronavirus test in the parking lot. D’Amico said he and his husband were under quarantine together. His husband, after initially being unable to obtain a test, was tested late last week, D’Amico said.

 

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Can I describe MY life living in my car for years and my union, SAG, won't help me find work

His positivity is refreshing, but I wish everyone had access to the type of reassurance he has that’s made possible with available testing and proper care.

Give me a dollar for every LA Times article about the Coronavirus that’s behind a paywall

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