Correction: Virus Outbreak-Mississippi Legislature story
Emily Wagster Pettus
Associated Press
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FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo, Mississippi legislators, staff and Capitol employees take advantage of a drive-thru COVID-19 testing center on the Capitol grounds in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is seeing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - In this June 27, 2020, file photo, observers in the House gallery applaud after the lawmakers voted by two-thirds to consider the suspension of the rules and introduce a bill to take down the state flag at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is seeing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - In this June 27, 2020, file photo, Republican members of the House walk to the Ways and Means conference room to caucus, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is seeing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - In this Saturday, June 27, 2020, file photo, Mississippi state Rep. John Faulkner, D-Holly Springs, wears a mask in honor of George Floyd, in the House chamber of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Faulkner posted a video to Facebook late Wednesday, July 8, saying he tested positive for the virus and has had mild symptoms akin to a sinus infection with an occasional cough. (AP Photo /Emily Wagster Pettus, File)FILE - In this June 28, 2020, file photo, Sens. Chad McMahan, left, R-Guntown, and Sollie Norwood, D-Jackson, applaud after the Senate approved legislation to change the state flag, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is seeing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. McMahan said he never heard legislators express ideological reasons for going bare-faced, as he did. He said in a phone interview Thursday, July 9, that he washed his hands and did his best to keep distance between himself and others. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - In this June 27, 2020, file photo, observers watch the House consider a number of bills at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is seeing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo, Mississippi legislators, staff and Capitol employees take advantage of a drive-thru COVID-19 testing center on the Capitol grounds in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is seeing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
JACKSON, Miss. – In a story July 9, 2020, about coronavirus cases in the Mississippi Legislature, The Associated Press erroneously reported in an early version of the story that a North Dakota legislator had died of the virus. The story should have said that a South Dakota legislator had died of the virus. Subsequent versions of the story did not include the error.
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