Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist, said he isn't surprised by the outbreaks as camps reopen this year after being closed last summer. The health department in Leon County, Florida, which includes Tallahassee, tweeted this month that an increase in cases there also was tied in part to summer camp outbreaks. And in Kansas, about 50 people have been infected in an outbreak linked to a church summer camp held last month not far from Wichita. Summer camp outbreaks “certainly could be a precursor’’ to what happens when youngsters return to classrooms in the fall, said Dr. Michelle Prickett, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Ford, the teacher whose daughter narrowly escaped getting COVID-19 at a Missouri summer camp, is worried.

Source: ABC News July 12, 2021 18:55 UTC