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Botany

(70,483 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 07:22 AM Jul 2020

Hundreds of people celebrated the July 4 weekend at a Michigan lake. Now some have Covid-19

Source: CNN

(CNN)After revelers celebrated the Fourth of July at a Michigan lake, some started testing positive for Covid-19 -- prompting health officials to warn other party-goers that they might have been infected, too.

The Health Department of Northwest Michigan said other health officials in the state reported that several people have tested positive "after attending the festivities at the Torch Lake sandbar over the Fourth of July holiday," the department said Friday.

Those who tested positive weren't able to identify everyone they had contact with, "and therefore we want to make the public aware that those who attended could be at risk for exposure, and additional cases could be seen in the coming days," the health department said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/health/michigan-coronavirus-torch-lake-sandbar/index.html

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Hundreds of people celebrated the July 4 weekend at a Michigan lake. Now some have Covid-19 (Original Post) Botany Jul 2020 OP
File this under "Duh!" FakeNoose Jul 2020 #1
We have become a nation of idiots .... Reality isn't real. Botany Jul 2020 #2
Yeah let's keep reopening everything. What could go wrong? Initech Jul 2020 #3
Well, gosh. Just imagine that. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #4
There's a term for those people in that picture. Mr.Bill Jul 2020 #5
Covidiots. roamer65 Jul 2020 #6

FakeNoose

(32,620 posts)
1. File this under "Duh!"
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 08:49 AM
Jul 2020


I'm pretty sure this same story was posted last week, but now we know the outcome. Some - and the number is growing - are now showing symptoms of the virus.


Botany

(70,483 posts)
2. We have become a nation of idiots .... Reality isn't real.
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 09:35 AM
Jul 2020

I wonder how many of these "kids" grew up in a house where they watched Fox News?

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