# During Kansas City’s COVID-19 Shutdown, This Business Deems Guitars ‘Essential’

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/during-kansas-citys-covid-19-shutdown-this-business-deems-guitars-essential/
- Published: 2020-03-26T09:15:07-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: The 700,000 square-foot Guitar Center distribution center in the Northland […] Google Maps. Article by Dan Margolies. Although only “essential” businesses are supposed to remain open under stay-at-home orders now in effect in the Kansas City area, some businesses appear to have adopted a loose definition of the term. […] Both Kansas City’s and Clay County’s stay-at-home orders took effect after midnight on Tuesday. As of Tuesday, the portion of Clay County outside Kansas City reported four confirmed coronavirus cases: a man and woman in their 50s, a woman in her 80s and a man in his 20s. Kansas City had reported an additional 30 confirmed cases as of Wednesday. […] Click here to view original web page at www.kcur.org