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RandySF

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Mon Mar 23, 2020, 10:40 AM Mar 2020

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's brother dies of COVID-19

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s brother has died after contracting COVID-19.

The lieutenant governor said her brother Ron, who lived in Tennessee, was diagnosed with cancer several weeks ago and his immune system was compromised when he got the coronavirus.

“To many, he’ll be a statistic: Tennessee’s second COVID-related death. But to me, I’ll remember a loving, older brother, uncle, father, and husband,” Flanagan wrote in an Instagram post Sunday.

She urged people to stay home to protect people like her brother.

“If you feel fine, that’s great. But please consider the possibility that you’re carrying the virus and don’t know it, and then you walk past the next Ron, my big brother, in public,” she wrote. “COVID-19 now has a personal connection to me. Please do all you can to prevent one for you.”



http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-lt-gov-peggy-flanagan-s-brother-dies-of-covid-19/569024192/

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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's brother dies of COVID-19 (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP
R.I.P. Iliyah Mar 2020 #1
Very sad. She lost her father two months ago. Mike 03 Mar 2020 #2
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