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KY_EnviroGuy

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5. Sometimes that does not work our so well, though....
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 07:27 AM
Apr 2020
Ski vacation hot spot becomes virus ground zero in Idaho

Link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ski-vacation-hot-spot-becomes-virus-ground-zero-in-idaho

Excerpt:
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A scenic Idaho county known as a ski-vacation haven for celebrities and the wealthy has a new, more dubious distinction: It has one of the highest per-capita rates of confirmed coronavirus infections in America.

Numbers from Johns Hopkins University on Friday show that with more than 80 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, Blaine County has the highest rate of cases outside New York City and its surrounding counties.

The numbers themselves are far smaller in the Idaho region than in New York City but still dire for residents. At least 14 of the cases in the rural county of roughly 22,000 people involved health care workers, and at least two people have died from COVID-19.

Agree with you in general simply because they can afford the best of care, whether they can out run it or not.

KY............

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