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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

2021

SARS-CoV-2

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Rapid Return To Normal Activities At A Residential Summer Camp During Covid-19 Pandemic, Anna Klunk, Rachel Holloway, Arash Babaoff, Eric Jelin May 2021

Rapid Return To Normal Activities At A Residential Summer Camp During Covid-19 Pandemic, Anna Klunk, Rachel Holloway, Arash Babaoff, Eric Jelin

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Aim: Infection prevention and control (IPC) within residential settings is a central focus of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Youth residential summer camps are an excellent model for such environments and have thus far had mixed results. The aim of this report is to describe the successful implementation of a seven-week overnight summer camp with rapid return to normal activities from June to August 2020

Subjects and Methods: This retrospective study includes 427 individuals who traveled from 24 US States. All staff and campers were tested by serial nasopharyngeal PCR tests in the context of strict infection prevention and …