Campers and staff members promise to isolate before they arrive at camp, but in several cases the pandemic has arrived with them.
Fear of the situation Kanakuk faces led family-owned and -operated Camp Friendship in Palmyra, Virginia, to fully shut down its overnight summer camp season for the first time in over 50 years.
"All summer camps are looking at if you decide to cancel summer camp, this could be closing your business for good," she said. To drum up some income, Camp Friendship has begun renting out some of its cabins as campgrounds for families. Falls Creek Youth Camp in Oklahoma and Inspire Sports Camps in New Jersey, both designed for kids whose families have lower incomes, also went online.Although there are free summer programming options online, even having access to a device through which one can participate in virtual programming is not a given for families with limited means.
Cennimo, the Rutgers infectious disease expert, said:"Ultimately, I think we're going to now live, for the next couple of years, in a world where there will be continual alerts for new cases, contact tracing and periodic either pauses, opening or re-quarantine. And I think that's going to be the future for all of us, including our children."
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