Nurses urge residents to stay home during a protest at Pennsylvania's capitol

Anti-stay-at-home protesters at the Pennsylvania capitol were met with a counterprotest from local ICU nurses, who held signs telling those who opposed the stay-at-home order that they should return home

Thousands of people flocked to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to voice their concerns after Gov. Tom Wolf extended the state's shelter-in-place order until May 8. More than 97% of the US population is currently under a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order as the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend everyone's lives. Covid-19 has infected more than 2.4 million people and killed at least 165,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.

— Miguel Marquez April 20, 2020 President Donald Trump over the weekend defended anti-quarantine protesters as "great people." "These people love our country, they want to get back to work," he said.In recent days Trump has encouraged governors to relax those guidelines as soon as they feel it's safe to do so.But some governors, including Wolf, aren't budging.

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