Push for defibrillators in schools becomes personal
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Push for defibrillators in schools becomes personal

Matthew Mangine and Rep. Andy Barr are tied together by unimaginable loss and one singular, horrible date: June 16, 2020. That’s the day Mangine, a dad from northern Kentucky, lost his 16-year-old son, who collapsed at a soccer practice and later died from a cardiac event. It’s also the day Barr’s wife, Carol, collapsed on a Zoom call and later died, also from a cardiac event. She was 39. Last month, Mangine went to Barr’s Washington, D.C., office and asked him to back...