Trump's America - police guard coronavirus patient who wouldn’t self-quarantine, making him a prisoner in his own home

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A Kentucky coronavirus patient has been placed under police guard after refusing to stay under quarantine, the state’s governor has revealed.

The unidentified 53-year-old man from Nelson County recently tested positive at the University of Louisville, but left against medical advice — and also refused to self-isolate at home, Gov. Andy Beshear said at a press conference.

A local judge declared a state of emergency in order to invoke a little-known statute that allows him to force a “self-isolation or quarantine,” the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Law enforcement officers are now stationed outside the infected man’s home to make sure he does not leave and spread the potentially deadly virus.