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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:04 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus and the NBA: Child tests positive for COVID-19 after getting autographs at Jazz v Celtic

Coronavirus and the NBA: Child tests positive for COVID-19 after getting autographs at Jazz vs. Celtics game
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/coronavirus-and-the-nba-child-tests-positive-for-covid-19-after-getting-autographs-at-jazz-vs-celtics-game/

Police in in Westerley, Rhode Island announced Friday that one of the two children in the town who had been recently diagnosed with coronavirus got an autograph from an NBA player on March 6. The autograph reportedly happened when the Utah Jazz visited the Boston Celtics.

Chief Shawn Lacey said in a press conference that one patient is in second grade while the other is a preschooler, according to the Providence Journal. The chief added that elementary school student, who had gone to the game in Boston, came in contact with a player who is confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. The other child had just come from a from a cruise to the Bahamas. Students and staff at Springbrook Elementary School, which the second grader attends, are on a two-week quarantine going forward, according to what officials told the Providence Journal.



So much for the MAGAt canard that kids aren’t vulnerable
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Coronavirus and the NBA: Child tests positive for COVID-19 after getting autographs at Jazz v Celtic (Original Post) Roland99 Mar 2020 OP
I think the idea is that it doesn't severely impact most of them intrepidity Mar 2020 #1
I've gotten into w/multiple MAGAts who say kids can't get infected Roland99 Mar 2020 #2

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
2. I've gotten into w/multiple MAGAts who say kids can't get infected
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:07 PM
Mar 2020

And they ignore that it’s more a matter that they aren’t susceptible to its effects but can still pass it on to others

My son has asthma and severe pet allergies, he is in a higher risk category so it hits home for me when these MAGAts go on their willfully ignorant tirades

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