Columbia Spy

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — A Turkey Hill employee in Lancaster tested positive for coronavirus.

Turkey Hill announced the employee worked at the 410 East Chestnut Street location in Lancaster. They say they are taking all appropriate steps following guidance from local health officials.

Pennsylvania is now up to 133 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the state, sadly, has seen its first fatality, a resident of Northampton County. On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8th District, announced he’d gone into self-quarantine after coming into contact with someone suffering from the illness. And the rest of us are working from home or are in our own form of self-isolation.

Which got us thinking: So what is quarantine, anyway? And what are your legal rights when the government tells you to Netflix and couch it? We’re turning things over to University of Oregon Legal Research Professor Latisha Nixon-Jones, who has some answers. She wrote the piece below for The Conversation, where it first appeared.

The Distilled Spirits Council and the American Distilled Spirits Association sent a letter to Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday afternoon urging him to reconsider his decision to close all of the Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores.

Those closures took place at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Lancaster General Hospital is treating a patient who has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The COVID-19 diagnosis marks the first known case in Lancaster County.