Georgia ymca campers. Of the 344 campers and staff for whom test results were available 260 tested positive. Ymca camp high harbour identified in the report as camp a suffered an outbreak at its lake burton location in late june. 11alive confirmed the camp is the ymca run camp high harbor in rabun county which was shut in june.
A georgia overnight camp hit by a coronavirus outbreak took many precautions but didnt make campers wear masks or have proper ventilation in buildings. Of children ages 6 to 10 over half were infected. Of the 597 residents at the ymca camp high harbor in rabun county identified in the report as camp a 344 were tested for the virus and 260 tested positive.
The cdc study of 597 campers and staff from georgia found the camp. All counselors and campers passed all mandatory screenings and were required to have a negative covid 19 test before attending the camp in late june the study noted. More than 250 campers and staffers at an overnight camp in georgia were infected with the coronavirus after being together for roughly a week according to a research paper released on friday by the centers for disease control and prevention.
Rabun county ga a cdc report released friday reveals that hundreds of campers at a north georgia ymca camp were infected with coronavirus in just days before the camp was shut down. The camp identified as ymca camp high harbour by local outlet wsb tv opened its doors to overnight campers on june 21 only to shut down for good six days later. The report details that 231 campers under the age of 18 tested positive nearly half of the 509.
Researchers with the cdc and the georgia department of public health tracked infections at the camp dubbed camp a after a teenage counselor was sent. Thats about 18 of the 362 camper and 118 staff members the publication said.