Georgia ymca covid outbreak. The report details that 231 campers under the age of 18 tested positive nearly half of the. The coronavirus outbreak updated 2020 08 15t001459606z the manager of the trump administrations new virus database refuses senate questioning citing a nondisclosure agreement. A rumor circulated about a child there testing positive for covid 19.
A georgia overnight camp hit by a coronavirus outbreak took many precautions but didnt make campers wear masks or have proper ventilation in buildings according to a government report. The details in the paper align with the closure of ymca camp high harbour in georgia though the cdc declined to comment on whether its study was about the ymca camp. 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.
85 kids counselors infected with coronavirus in ymca camp outbreak ga officials say by mitchell willetts. Ymca camp high harbour at lake burton imposed strict covid guidelines before the start of summer but was forced to close as hundreds became infected. In a startling finding with disturbing implications for schools 260 children and staff members tested positive for covid 19 in an outbreak that spread in just days at a summer camp in northern georgia according to a study released friday by the centers for disease control and prevention.
After learning of the outbreak at its lake burton site the ymca closed a related camp it operates at lake allatoona. Cnn reported that the ymca camp was shut down after a staff member tested positive for covid 19 on june 24. July 10 2020 1059 pm order.
Covid 19 spread quickly among unmasked youth at ymca camp cdc finds.