Maine’s CDC director said the effect of the wedding was like opening a 'giant tube of glitter' over the state. The virus ended up all over the place.
By winter, “the Millinocket wedding” had basically become shorthand for a “coronavirus superspreader event.” Stories about COVID-19 that ran in local papers were sometimes accompanied by a photo of the Big Moose Inn Cabins & Campground for no other reason than that everyone associated the one with the other.
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