NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns is pleading with fans on social media to take COVID-19 measures seriously after his mother was placed in a medically induced coma as she battles with coronavirus symptoms.
The Minnesota Timberwolves center posted an emotional video on his Instagram page early Wednesday. Towns said that his parents both went to the hospital after feeling ill for a few days.
While his father was discharged to quarantine, he said his mother's health «kept getting worse» because her cough and fever weren't improving.
He said they haven't gotten the results yet but believes she has coronavirus, which has infected more than 55,000 people and killed over 800 in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University. «She was deteriorating,» he