Longtime Allman Brothers Band photographer, wife recovering from COVID-19

Best wishes to Kirsten and Kirk for continued recovery.
"We were in a room with 18,000 people," says Kirk.
Nobody knew at that time just how much of a hot seat New York City was, and this concert was on Tuesday, and on Wednesday morning, they started canceling everything," says Kirk.
Once the curtains closed and the Wests traveled back to Georgia, they started feeling under the weather.
"I thought it was pollen," said Kirsten.
After a week of feeling sick, the Wests called their doctor to get tested for COVID-19.
https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/longtime-allman-brother-band-photographer-wife-recovering-from-covid-19/93-2ab885c0-620c-4fc7-969f-68efcf0ec1e6

Oh My God what a bummer.
Best Wishes Kirk and Kirsten!!

So glad they made it through to recover. Did they get it together same time? Or did one infect the other after they returned home?

Goodness Speedy recovery!!!!!!!..........and much Peace........joe

Best wishes Kirk & Kirsten, hope this thing is on its way out of your systems as we speak

Scary. Glad they are on the mend. Kirk has the most ABB live show soundboard recordings than anybody I suppose.
God help New York City. Half of the cases and deaths are there.
I flew into JFK, Sky Tram to the Subway Station with people who flew in on hundreds of flights from China, Italy, Spain etc. Then long Subway ride with people packed together to Manhattan. My terminal building was mostly domestic flights.
This week and next thousand of people are expected to die. This is really scary and its worldwide.
Good luck to everyone and do all the things to protect yourself.

Hate to say it but sometimes the virus starts with stomach troubles and then later progresses on to other things. The West's need to get retested a month or more from the original positive test to be sure that bout with the virus is over. Once recovered they will have antibodies and some protection against the virus.

So glad they made it through to recover. Did they get it together same time? Or did one infect the other after they returned home?
It's probably impossible to know, just like most people who got it will never know how it happened. Germany and South Korea and some other countries have extensive testing and contact tracing, and we absolutely don't.
I'm glad Kirk and Kirsten are on the mend. And we don't know if their illnesses are connected to the NYC shows and the music was wonderful, but I'll just say that if our governor and mayor had done their jobs, those shows (and many others) would have been canceled. They didn't take the situation as seriously as they should have, and if they had, there would have been restrictions on events weeks earlier and hundreds if not thousands of lives would have been saved. There are around 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the city and 5,500 in the state so far, and the real numbers are probably much worse. Deaths at home, as opposed to in the hospital, are happening at eight or ten times the normal rate, and the vast majority are probably because of the virus, to say nothing of other people who are dying as an indirect result because they can't get the medical care they usually would.
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