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Young adults in Alabama throwing COVID-19 parties with payout for
first person infected
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Some young adults in Tuscaloosa, Ala., are throwing parties where
people with COVID-19 attend and the first person to get infected
receives a payout,
CNN<https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/us/alabama-coronavirus-parties-trnd/index.html>
reports.
Infected people are urged to attend the parties so others can
intentionally contract the virus, City Council member Sonya McKinstry
told CNN. Physicians' offices and the state have confirmed this
information, Ms. McKinstry said.
The first person to receive a COVID-19 diagnosis from a physician
after the exposure wins the money made off the ticket sales, according
to Ms. McKinstry. The city is working to break up such parties and
also passed a mask ordinance that goes into effect next week.
The state has reported about 39,000 COVID-19 cases and nearly 1,000
deaths, officials with the Alabama Health Department told CNN.
Younger patients are increasingly making up a larger proportion of
COVID-19 cases in many areas. Half of all cases in Arizona are people
ages 20 to 44,
Bloomberg<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-01/young-americans-are-partying-hard-and-spreading-the-virus-fast>
reports. In Florida, the median age is 37, down from 65 in March. In
Texas' Hays County, people in their 20s make up 50 percent of the
cases. On July 1, more than 50,000 new U.S. infections were
reported<https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/us-sees-5th-record-increase-in-8-days-19-states-pause-roll-back-reopenings-6-covid-19-updates.html>,
the largest daily case count to date.
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