He had been holed up in the same hotel for two weeks with family members delivering meals to his hotel room door.
“We have a responsibility to our bridge players in our club who have come in contact with someone who was infected,” Abrahams said.īut health authorities haven't made similar attempts to notify the players of their possible exposure and request that they limit their contact with others, The Republic reported this week.Ĭouchman, who went public with his diagnosis last week, said he is finally out of self-isolation at a Tucson hotel and feeling better. "He said he had a conversation with Couchman, he interacted him with quite a bit," Abrahams told The Republic.īridge club leadership has attempted to contact all 700 bridge players they know of in Tucson and notify them that they might have been exposed to coronavirus. A second person who played in bridge tournaments in Tucson earlier this month has contracted COVID-19, Adobe Bridge Club President Barry Abrahams said on Friday.Ībrahams declined to identify the individual who developed symptoms in recent days, beginning with a high fever, because he did not have permission from the bridge player.īut Abrahams told The Arizona Republic that during two March bridge events the infected person had close contact with bridge player Doug Couchman, the first player from the tournaments to become ill with the new coronavirus.
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