Man arrested after police say he forged a coronavirus doctor note and created a panic

One South Carolina man’s alleged effort to get out of work during the coronavirus pandemic landed him behind bars. Jeffrey Long, 31, was arrested Thursday after he provided his work with a fake doctor’s note, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said at a news conference. Long worked at a call center in the county and allegedly showed his employer the note that was attributed to a VA hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, according to the Associated Press. The note caused havoc at the call center, which was shut down for days to be sanitized. Long had also visited a school and created panic of a possible outbreak there, according to officials. “I don’t know the dollar number it cost to disinfect their whole entire building, but it was a large number,” Wright said. “It wasn’t a hundred bucks. It was more than that.”

Officials at the hospital Long claimed to visit said he had not been there in the past two weeks and, according to Inman Police chief Keith Tucker, the hospital wasn’t even conducting tests for the coronavirus at the time. Long was charged with breach of peace and forgery. “It seems to me like the fella just wanted a two-week paid vacation,” Wright said. “You can’t do this to people.” In South Carolina, there have been 126 cases of COVID-19 and one death, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the United States, there have been more than 19,000 cases, about 150 recoveries, and at least 227 deaths.

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Lou Dobbs in self-quarantine after team member tests positive for coronavirus

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs is in self-quarantine after an employee of the network tested positive for the coronavirus.

Lou is in self-quarantine tonight. We just learned that one of his team members has tested positive for COVID-19,” fill-in host David Asman said Friday. “Lou feels well. He has no symptoms, but, out of an abundance of caution, he and his team are taking the necessary precautions.”

At 74, Dobbs is in an age group especially vulnerable to the virus. Fox News alerted employees to the coronavirus case in a companywide memo on Friday. “We wanted to inform you that we just learned less than an hour ago that one of our FOX Business colleagues on the 20th floor has tested positive for COVID-19. Friday March 13th was the last day this employee was working in the office,” CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace wrote in the email. “As soon as we learned of the test result, we mandated that this employee’s direct co-workers/team self-quarantine for 14 days since last contact at the direction of our medical professionals. We are also doing a deep cleaning of all areas affected and will be continuing all of our aggressive sanitizing and disinfecting efforts throughout the entire building.”

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