The Next Scary Source of COVID-19 Outbreaks May Be Summer Camp
As coronavirus lockdowns ease and parents feel pressure to return to the workplace, child care plans already thrown into disarray by school closures face a new wild card: summer camp.
Camps from Florida to New York to Texas have teased plans to open this year, despite the still-raging pandemic. But is it even safe to send kids to the land of kayaking and Sloppy Joes?
Public health experts suggest that, with the right precautions, it could be, and that the psychological benefits for young people—not to mention their parents—might be massive after so much isolation. But the risk of sending millions of kids into prolonged close contact with large groups of people—and then potentially returning an army of infected but asymptomatic campers home—was almost inescapable.
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