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Residents angry after Maine wedding linked to 7 virus deaths: "We can't go nowhere"
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Residents angry after Maine wedding linked to 7 virus deaths: "We can't go nowhere"

"I don't think they should have had the wedding," said a member of the church where the ceremony was held.

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A wedding in rural Maine became a coronavirus "superspreader" event that left seven people dead and 177 infected. Now, for the community and wider region, which had relaxed social-distancing rules introduced earlier in the crisis, the news was a brutal wake-up call.

"When we heard of the outbreak... everyone really hunkered down," said Cody McEwen, head of the town council. "As soon as the outbreak happened, we completely closed the town again."

Some of the residents were clearly angry at the event's organizers -- starting with the tavern, whose license was temporarily suspended.