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Teams working on COVID-19 study reported being traumatized by slurs and threats
By CHRISTOPHER MAGAN | cmagan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: September 25, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 25, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.
Federal health workers have been pulled out of Minnesota after repeated threatening and racist encounters with residents while they were conducting a random COVID-19 testing study.
In one instance, two cars boxed in the health workers’ vehicle and three men, one of whom had his hand on a holstered gun, confronted the team of testers who were asking randomly selected households to participate in the coronavirus study.
By CHRISTOPHER MAGAN | cmagan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: September 25, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 25, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.
Federal health workers have been pulled out of Minnesota after repeated threatening and racist encounters with residents while they were conducting a random COVID-19 testing study.
In one instance, two cars boxed in the health workers’ vehicle and three men, one of whom had his hand on a holstered gun, confronted the team of testers who were asking randomly selected households to participate in the coronavirus study.
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