The states with the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.—New York, New Jersey and Michigan—are among those including exemptions for religious services in their stay-at-home orders.
Multiple states under stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic include exemptions for religious gatherings, despite public health experts warning that the gatherings could help the virus to spread.
The states with the second and third most cases, New Jersey and Michigan, also include religious exemptions in their stay-at-home orders. Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina and West Virginia also have some form of religious exemption. In Louisiana, all gatherings of more than 10 people are banned without exception but traveling to and from religious services are exempted.Governor Laura Kelly's directive to limited religious gatherings to 10 people on Wednesday, allowing services to take place without any limit on crowd size despite warnings from health experts.
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