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A New Source of Coronavirus Spread: ‘Covid-19 Parties’
The authorities in southeast Washington State have identified at least two social events that people attended in the hope of contracting the virus.
SEATTLE — A county in Washington State dealing with a coronavirus outbreak has identified a confounding new source of spread: “Covid-19 parties” organized so that people can deliberately mingle with an infected person in the hope of getting their own illness out of the way.
Meghan Debolt, the director of community health for Walla Walla County, said Wednesday that county investigators had learned of two such parties in the area that occurred in recent weeks. Two people who went to one of the parties, which included at least 20 attendees, have since become sick and tested positive for the virus.





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