Nassau Health Commissioner reappears after eight days

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran with Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder on the left and Health Commissioner Larry Eisenstein on the right


After an eight day absence, Nassau Health Comissioner Larry Eisenstein reappeared today at County Executive Laura Curran's daily briefing about the coronavirus impact on county operations.

Eisenstein was a constant presence at Curran's news breifings from the start of the epidemic until March 28. Then he was not seen in public again for eight days.

Two county sources said Eisenstein had been in quarantine. But a Curran spokesman did not respond when asked if Eisenstein was in quarantine.

Nor did the spokesman respond when asked if Curran had been tested for the virus after appearing at a news conference with Senior Hempstead Town Board member Dorothy Goosby a day before Goosby was hospitalized with the virus. Goosby has since recovered.

Neither Curran nor Eisenstein gave any explanation today for his eight-day absence and reappearance. Worse, nobody asked where Eisenstein had been and why he was back.

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