Oral history interview with Lawrence Garbuz, 2020
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- Name
- Garbuz, Lawrence I (Interviewee)
- Starecheski, Amy (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Lawrence Garbuz, 2020
- Abstract
- Lawrence Garbuz is an attorney in New Rochelle, a town near New York City. He was the first patient officially diagnosed with COVID-19 in the New York metro area, and spent weeks in a medically-induced coma while undergoing treatment. He describes this experience, and the intense media attention and representation of him as New York's "patient zero" in his first session. His second session, conduct ed in September of 2020, covers the lingering physiological, psychological, and social effects of his infection. The audio for the second session was not included when the collection was donated to the archives, so this session is transcript-only.
- Collection Name
- New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection
- Subjects
- Lawyers; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; COVID-19 (Disease)--Health aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in mass media; Garbuz, Lawrence I
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 76 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawrence Garbuz is an attorney in the area of trust and estate law, residing in New Rochelle, New York. He was the first patient officially diagnosed with Covid-19 in the New York City metropolitan area
- Note
- Interviewed by Amy Starecheski on May 28 and September 25, 2020
- Note (Provenance)
- Lawrence Garbuz, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 18889386
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/r0xx-3p54