PORTSMOUTH — Amy G. Rice, a well-known local attorney who represented Portsmouth as a state representative from 2005 to 2011, revealed to her Facebook followers Wednesday night that she contacted the COVID-19 (coronavirus) during a recent skiing rip to Utah.
“Two days after dining at a restaurant in Park City, Utah I learned that one of their employees tested positive,” Ms. Rice wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday, March 18. “The next morning I awoke to chills and chest pain. I went to get my temperature checked and they administered the test.”
She was tested in Utah and it took two days to get the results, she shared with followers.
Ms. Rice said she was told that the employees wasn’t there that night, and that she must have gotten the virus from an asymptomatic employee.
“It goes to show you that it’s truly out there. So these closures and precautions are vital and must be taken seriously,” said Ms. Rice, who served in the House of Representatives as a Democrat.
“Luckily I’m super healthy with no issues,″ she continued in her Facebook post. “I have slight: fever, headache & cough. I hope to beat it in a few more days but quarantine for more. it ends for all.”
Ms. Rice urged her followed to take the advice from health care professionals and government officials to heart.
“Although I used every precaution, I became infected,” she said.