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Alabama students throwing 'COVID parties' to see who gets infected: Officials

Title (Dublin Core)

Alabama students throwing 'COVID parties' to see who gets infected: Officials

Description (Dublin Core)

As covid cases explode across the U.S., especially in the southern and western portions of the country, young people in Tuscaloosa, Alabama are doing something unthinkable. They are hosting covid parties. While authorities thought this was a rumor upon first being notified, further investigation showed it was really happening. Unlike previous generations who held "chicken pox parties" in an effort to expose their children to the disease while they were young and less likely to suffer complications (prior to a vaccine being available) the covid parties do not appear to have any purpose other than entertainment. People are hosting parties and inviting people known to have the disease. Everyone then puts money in a pot and the first person to come down with covid gets the pot.
covid party, money, entertainment, outbreak
with video
HST 580

Date (Dublin Core)

July 1, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Bill Hutchison

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-students-throwing-covid-parties-infected-officials/story?id=71552514&fbclid=IwAR1NPyCLV_m-EjJsf81peN6c0RksKdfHvlK0cuRXvzMQCMf8JSivlaJbJXA
http://web.archive.org/web/20200722011943/https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-students-throwing-covid-parties-infected-officials/story?id=71552514

Publisher (Dublin Core)

ABC News

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict
English Health & Wellness
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

COVID party
gambling
outbreak
Alabama
student
party
college
university

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

COVID party
money
entertainment
outbreak

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Image of a male doctor holding a sign which reads I stayed at work for you, you stay at home for us.Doctor asking us to stay home
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/02/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/21/2020
9/30/2020
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Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/01/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on July 2, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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