During a recent visit to a Bronx hospital, PVH CEO Manny Chirico said he was 'shocked' to learn that he was positive for COVID-19.
"I'm fine, Jim," he said in a "Chirico, 62, learned that he was infected by the virus while making a visit to Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx, New York, hospital where he serves as a board member.
"I was going to be present there and anybody who's going to be inside the hospital for an extended period of time needs to be tested," he explained. "So I was tested and I was kind of shocked when I found out that I was positive. I'm asymptomatic." COVID-19 is the respiratory illness that has sickened more than 932,600 people around the globe, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University as of Wednesday evening. Chirico, who did not say when he discovered he was positive, is one of more than nearly 84,000 confirmed cases in the state of New York. The deadly virus originated in the Hubei province of China in December and has since spread across the world.
New York is the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States, where more than 213,000 people have been infected. Chirico, himself a Bronx native, said there's a high chance that his wife had also contracted the disease. As for his live-in parents, two septuagenarians, Chirico ensured they have been isolated. The elderly and people with underlying conditions have been found to be most vulnerable to COVID-19."Those health-care workers, those hospital workers at Montefiore, and the other hospitals in New York, they're the real heroes," he said.
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