9to5Mac:

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak took to Twitter this afternoon to suggest that he and his wife “may have both been patient zero” for coronavirus in the United States. As it turns out, this wasn’t the case.

Woz’s tweet came in the form of a Swarm check-in at the West Coast Sports Institute in Santa Clara. The accompanying message read that the couple was there “checking out Janet’s bad cough,” which apparently started on January 4 after they returned from China.

But in an email to USA Today following Wozniak’s irresponsible tweet, Janet Wozniak said that she has a sinus infection, not coronavirus:

I thought there might have been something fishy about this when I first saw the tweet. Nowadays, why would you wait two months to get a “bad cough” diagnosed? And as 9to5Mac says, Woz tweeting that “he and his wife “may have been patient zero” for coronavirus in the United States” is an incredibly irresponsible thing to say without any evidence.