Coronavirus update: Online service gets pastor a record audience; glitzy Louisville fundraiser was a petri dish for the virus

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

• "God makes a way," writes pastor Paul Prather in his faith column for the Lexington Herald-Leader. "This past Sunday I preached to the biggest congregation I’ve ever spoken to. Without leaving my house." Prather canceled services at his church and went online.
• "Kentucky's governor, Louisville's mayor and a high-ranking member of Congress, all clad in tuxedos, made their way to the dinner table at the glitzy ball inside the art museum — but little did they know that the bourbon heiress and prominent philanthropist sitting next to them were unknowingly infected with the virus that was well on its way to becoming a global pandemic," writes Joe Sonka of the Courier Journal. "The opening to a bad novel? No, it unfolded two weeks ago in Louisville, as the emergence of the coronavirus continues to be as strange as dystopian fiction."