CDC: Coronavirus spreads to hundreds of youth at overnight summer camp - Business Insider - Business Insider

At least 260 campers who attended an overnight summer camp in Georgia have been infected with the coronavirus, the CDC reported Friday. .

The CDC stated that on June 17, staff members arrived for a four-day orientation for at an overnight summer camp unidentified by the report.

Four days later, on June 21, 363 campers and three senior staff members joined these staff members, adding to a total of 597 Georgia residents who attended the camp, according to the report.

In less than a week after arrival, on June 23, a teenage staff member left the camp "after developing chills the previous evening," according to the CDC?

According to the report, the camp started sending campers home immediately the day the staff member tested positive and ultimately shut down a few days later on June 27. .