They visited their primary care doctor the next day, on March 13, and were tested for the coronavirus. The test was a swab of the nose and throat, and they were isolated. The swab was quick but the results took three business days, which turned into five days over the weekend.

Fauquet works in a skyscraper in New York where someone tested positive for the coronavirus. But he never came in direct contact with that person and they worked many floors apart.

“Getting tested for the coronavirus was an anomaly. I think if we went earlier or later, we wouldn’t have gotten tested,” Papa said. Because someone had tested positive in the same office building where Fauquet worked, they were tested for coronavirus.

They were sent home from the doctor’s office and they waited.

They self-quarantined. They didn’t leave their house for five days. Friends bought food and left it on their front porch.

On Tuesday afternoon, five days after being tested, they were notified that they had tested positive for the coronavirus.

“We don’t know how or where or when we were exposed to the virus,” Papa said. “It could have been in New York or Philadelphia or Charlottesville or Richmond.”