Outbreak at LI elderly housing complex has relatives fearful

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AP Long Islands
Last Updated : Mar 28 2020 | 7:58 PM IST

In less than two weeks, the coronavirus has claimed six lives at one Long Island retirement community and left residents there isolated from loved-ones barred from visiting.

I have a feeling that I very likely may never see my mother again, said children's author James Preller, whose 94-year-old mother, Ann Preller, is a resident.

At least 12 remaining residents and 13 staff members at the Peconic Landing community, in Greenport, had tested positive for COVID-19 as of Friday, though officials said six of the staff have since recovered.

The seaside complex is about 100 miles east of Manhattan, in an upscale beach community on the North Fork of Long Island, a peninsula jutting out into Long Island Sound. Some residents live independently in cottages, others

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First Published: Mar 28 2020 | 7:58 PM IST

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