An Illinois church camp that didn't require attendees to be vaccinated, tested, or masked has been liked with 180 confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, according to a new CDC report.
On June 18 and 19, six of the camp staff members who eventually tested positive left the camp to attend the men’s conference at a different location. They tested positive after the conference ended.to the CDC on June 30. By Aug. 13, the CDC found 87 cases directly linked to the summer camp and 35 linked to the men’s conference. Through contact tracing, 58 more secondary cases were identified as close contacts of the camp or conference attendees.
About 26% of the 335 campers and staff members contracted COVID-19. About 7% of the 535 conference attendees and staff tested positive. Among the cases, 29 were in fully vaccinated people, who didn’t require hospitalization. Five unvaccinated people were hospitalized. No one died. Of the 31 samples that were genetically sequenced, 87% were the Delta variant, 10% were the Alpha variant, and 3% were the Gamma variant.
The CDC said there are likely more cases because they didn’t have access to the camp rosters, and not all the attendees took part in contact tracing. As of Aug. 7, the CDC had received reports of 21 outbreaks at overnight camps in Illinois.-CoV-2 transmission during large events such as camps and conferences when COVID-19 prevention strategies, including vaccination, masking, physical distancing and screening testing, are not implemented,” the CDC wrote.
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