By Marina Knowles, EdSource, April 9, 2020
Shutting down California to control the spread of the coronavirus requires everyone to cooperate. Gov. Gavin Newsom urged young people to take the crisis seriously and stay indoors and at least six feet from others after commenting on the tragic loss of a Lancaster teenager who died of COVID-19.
He went on to say:
“Young people can and will be impacted by this virus. In fact, young people disproportionately are the ones testing positive in the state of California — 50 percent of the 2,102 individuals that have tested positive, 50 percent are between the age of 18 and 49 … I just cannot impress upon young people out there more the seriousness of this moment and how critical they are to ultimately getting us on the other side, by practicing that social distancing that we all are accustomed to hearing about but not in every case advancing individually.”
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