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Kentucky governor admonishes 'coronavirus party' after attendee tests positive
[Washington Examiner] GOP Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said that someone who attended a "coronavirus party" is among the 163 people in his state who have tested positive for the contagion.The governor denounced the so-called parties in a Tuesday news conference. Beshear didn’t identify in which county the case was but said that the gathering comprised people in their 20s. "This is the part where I, the person that tells everybody to be calm, have to remain calm myself," Beshear said. "Because anyone who goes to something like this may think that they are indestructible, but it’s someone else’s loved one that they are going to hurt." "We are battling for the health and even the lives of our parents and our grandparents," he continued. "Don’t be so callous as to intentionally go to something and expose yourself to something that can kill other people. We ought to be much better than that." "We simply can’t have folks that are doing things like this," he added. The United States experienced its 50,000th case of the flu-like virus on Tuesday and also saw the first death of someone under 18 years old. As of Tuesday evening, more than 53,000 people in the U.S. have tested positive for the virus, and 696 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-25 |
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