A summer wedding in southwest Minnesota is the source of at least 70 coronavirus cases, state infectious disease director says.
At a news conference last week, Ehresmann expressed concern that attendees weren't taking the situation seriously enough."We’re hearing that people are not being tested to avoid driving numbers up," she said.
Those who avoid being tested"just make it worse" because they could be unknowingly infected others, Ehresmann said."None of us are an island," she said. The Minnesota Department of Health is unable to track secondary transmission affiliated with the wedding and other events, such as Sturgis, South Dakota's motorcycle rally, which is the source of 51 cases in Minnesota, state officials said during their latest news conference Wednesday.
They suggested the department has its hands full just tracking cases directly related to noncompliant events. Ehresmann said the department is continuing to track patients who attended the wedding. Among them are people, including"educators, long-term care workers, and health care workers" who spanned nine Minnesota counties, she said.higher than average number of cases in the state"Families mixing together not in their immediate family," he said."That’s exactly the type of thing we’re seeing is having an impact on some of the spread.
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