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ATLANTA — Georgia state Rep. Betty Price says her comments suggesting that people with HIV might be quarantined to curb the spread of the infectious disease — which ignited a national firestorm — were “taken completely out of context.”

Price, the wife of former U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price, was in a legislative committee meeting Tuesday when she asked a state health official whether people with HIV could legally be quarantined.

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