Silicon Valley locks down for virus
David Tollner gets text messages telling him when meals are placed outside the door of the family guest room, where he was banished after developing a cough.
His wife Mitra Ahani is taking no chances as the coronavirus pandemic spreads in the United States -- even though she knows her husband may have no more than a common cold.
When Tollner returned to their home near Santa Cruz from a conference in Baltimore, she steered him directly to the shower, leaving doors open so he wouldn't touch them, and wiped down his suitcase with bleach.
When he started coughing, Tollner was relegated to a spare room.
"I locked him in the guest room," confirmed Ahani, a chief executive of a center that provides educational support for children with disabilities, who like millions in this tech-savvy region has shifted to remote work in response to the spreading coronavirus.
"He probably caught a little cold out there. But it scared the daylights out of him, and he needed that."
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