'It Happened So Quick:' NJ's First Coronavirus Patient Speaks Out

The 32-year-old physician's assistant who was the first patient who tested positive for novel coronavirus in the Garden State said his decline was a rapid one.

“People have to take coronavirus seriously. It’s very serious,” said James Cai, New Jersey’s first coronavirus case.

Cai works and lives in both Manhattan and Fort Lee. He went to an urgent care clinic and then the emergency room at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he’s been hospitalized since Tuesday.

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