People Are Throwing COVID-19 Parties To Get Infected

Many people living in the US have raised their voices about the lockdown and social distancing rules. For weeks now, protesters have been flooding the streets, asking to have their freedom back. However, there is something that is even more troubling happening in the country.

In one county in southern Washington, residents have reportedly been attending “COVID-19 parties,” shocking public health officials.

A press release stated that health officials of Walla Walla country had been receiving reports of people organizing COVID-19 parties, where non-infected people and an infected person would mingle in order to spread the virus.

According to the director of the Department of Community Health of the county, around 25 infected people had confessed to having attended one of these COVID-19 parties.

However, the NY Times then writes that these parties weren’t organized to intentionally spread the virus. Director Meghan DeBolt stated that the county was still receiving reports of these parties where there were infected people attending. However, they didn’t have evidence suggesting that people who got infected after the parties had a desire to be contracted with the virus. And these parties were only meant for social gathering.

However, during the time of the pandemic, whether it is intentional or not, people should not organize or attend any kind of party anyway since the chances of getting the virus are really high.

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