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UPDATE from Modern Music Masters Website:

Paul and his son Darrell contracted the Covid-19 virus, probably from contact with Paul's parents. Paul and Darrell are handling it from their homes, are not hospitalized and are in fact rounding the corner of the worst period. Just spoke to Paul this evening.

Paul's parents are hospitalized for dehydration, but doing better today, no ventilators or complications.

Paul sends his love and thanks for all the prayers and well-wishes.

Thank you for the update. Here's wishing the Franklin family a swift and complete recovery!

Rats. Glad to hear they are not in serious health crisis. My family has had to stay apart from fear of this happening. God bless Paul and all his family. I pray for a full recovery.

Sorry to hear this, but I'm also glad to hear they're on the upside. Thinking of all the Franklins. Hope you're back up to snuff soon.

Wishing them all a full and speedy recovery.

RC

Oh my. Sending healing thoughts to the whole family to get through this safely.

so very sorry to hear this, wishing Paul and his family well.



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Prayers for the family.

Best wishes to the Franklin family for a speedy recovery.

SH

Prayers for all, hope everyone heals quickly! Paul Sr. and Oleda are two of the sweetest folks I ever had the opportunity to know. Prayers!

Best wishes to all the Franklins for full recovery.

This past week has brought news of Covid from several other Nashville musician pals too; very scary. This thing is not going away anytime soon, that's for sure.

Be safe out there....

Get well soon, Paul & family.

Get well Paul and clan!

Get well wishes to ALL of the Franklin's.They are a wonderful asset to the steel guitar community.
Everyone stay vigile, wash your hands and watch how close proximity you are. Please wear a mask, the life you save may be mine. We'll get through this.

Paul, loved your tasty licks on the "Nashville Cats" video... Best wishes to your family for a full and speedy recovery.

Joe

So very sorry to hear this. I will certainly put the Franklin family in my prayers for a speedy and full recovery.

Prayers and best wishes for a full, quick recovery to the entire Franklin family. So sorry to hear you're having to go through this.

prayers are send to paul and family god bless

p.w

Our Prayers are with you and your family Paul for a speedy recovery.

Prayers going out to a great family. From a Bakersfield fan.

Wishing Paul and family all the best for a speedy recovery.

Wishing the Franklins well.

Anyone know if Paul's parents were living in an assisted living facility or something similar? These are really high risk environments for the disease and would explain how they acquired the disease.

Darrell Criswell wrote:Anyone know if Paul's parents were living in an assisted living facility or something similar? These are really high risk environments for the disease and would explain how they acquired the disease.

A friend's sister in law worked in a nursing home in Alabama. She tested positive recently--her bosses begged her to come back to work since she's already infected and at "no greater risk" to come in. She refused.

Then it went to her lungs--she stayed in her car outside the ER for hours (along with ambulances), and finally got in. They tried to put her in ICU, but there were no beds available in any nearby town. Plus staff had walked out due to lack of PPE. She was sent back home, and her outcome doesn't look good at all.

Yep, the assisted living facilities and nursing homes are hotbeds right now, and at least in some locations there isn't adequate hospital room availability for now anyway when the need arises. Very scary.

Wherever the virus was picked up, I hope that Paul and the rest of his family have a speedy and full recovery!

Dave