Man Hospitalized With Coronavirus After Whitestone Party: Report

WHITESTONE, QUEENS — The chairman of the board of the Queens Village Republican Club has been hospitalized with COVID-19, after he fell ill within days of attending an indoor Christmas party hosted by the Whitestone Republican Club, according to a news report.

Jim Trent is now fighting the coronavirus from North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, the Queens Daily Eagle reported Wednesday.

Trent started feeling COVID-19 symptoms two days after attending the Christmas party, which was held Dec. 9 at Il Bacco Ristorante in Little Neck in seeming violation of pandemic rules on social gatherings, according to the Eagle.

A video later posted to social media showed about 50 people at the party, including several maskless partiers dancing in a conga line.

the Whitestone Republican Club in NYC apparently held a Christmas party this year without a care in the world about COVID pic.twitter.com/mHzW86d9M7
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 21, 2020

“I wasn’t on the conga line. I ate by myself,” Trent told the Eagle. “I don’t know how I got this."

Another attendee and his wife also tested positive for the virus after the event, multiple sources told the Eagle.

A week before the Whitestone Republican Club's party, the Queens Village Republican Club held their own indoor holiday gathering at Nancy's Restaurant in Floral Park, according to social media posts.

In photos of the Dec. 3 gathering posted on Facebook, at least half a dozen attendees posed without masks.