Illinois church camp not requiring masks, vaccinations linked to 180 covid cases, CDC says
Related: Epidemiologically Linked COVID-19 Outbreaks at a Youth Camp and Men’s Conference — Illinois, June–July 2021 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Source: Washington Post
Alternate headline: Illinois church camp not requiring masks, vaccinations linked to 180 covid cases, CDC says
A church camp didn’t require vaccinations or masks. It’s now linked to 180 covid cases, CDC says.
By Timothy Bella
September 1, 2021 at 10:10 a.m. EDT
An Illinois church camp for teenagers and an affiliated men’s conference that did not mandate masks or require attendees to be vaccinated or tested for the coronavirus have been linked to at least 180 covid-19 infections, according to new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The investigation published Tuesday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows that a five-day overnight summer camp and a two-day men’s conference held in June, both of which were sponsored by a church, led to scores of covid cases across three states. The summer camp outbreak occurred at the Crossing Camp in Rushville, Ill., which is affiliated with The Crossing, a nondenominational Christian church with locations in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, according to the Chicago Tribune.
No deaths have been reported from the outbreak, but five people were hospitalized, the CDC said, noting that all of the hospitalizations involved unvaccinated patients. Twenty-nine people who were vaccinated ended up getting infected from the outbreak, according to the CDC. Health officials pointed to the highly transmissible delta variant as a catalyst for an outbreak that eventually exposed more than 1,100 people in four states to the virus.
“The high rate of transmission was likely driven by the number of persons infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant,” the report says.
Messages left for the camp and The Crossing were not immediately returned Wednesday.
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