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Day Camp Kids Are Safe From CoVid

Published: March 18, 2021, 6:55 p.m.

 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/U6KjQH1cROU

 

Last summer’s experience reassures us that children can safely attend day camps.  New York pediatric researchers draw this conclusion from their study of 8,480 campers and 3,698 staff at 23 camps.

 

CoVid cases only occurred in 2 camps. Only one camper and 6 staff members became infected.  Driving this success was near universal staff masking and select camper masking, regular hand sanitizing, focused testing, daily temperature checks, separation of campers into cohort bubbles, outdoor activities and meals, use of indoor facilities only for changing clothes, no field trips, and the use of distancing while eating. 

 

Critical to the success of these day camps were flawless communications between camp officials and parents.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.21253309v1.full.pdf

 

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