Students bring COVID-19 back from Myrtle Beach trips

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Students who recently traveled to Myrtle Beach brought COVID-19 back to West Virginia and Ohio, health officials say. A total of 91 students traveled from several counties in those states to the South Carolina destination, and of those, 45 were from Ohio's Belmont County, the county's deputy health commissioner, Rob Sproul told CBS News.

Sproul said Tuesday that so far, 16 of those 45 travelers have tested positive for COVID-19. One other person, a close contact of a traveler, has also tested positive, and others are being tested.

The 16 students come from multiple high schools in Belmont County, including Bellaire High School and Shady Side High School, Sproul told CBS News. The two schools have now suspended all sports activities, which were set to resume on Monday when the state entered Phase 2 of reopening after lockdown, Sproul said.

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Students who recently traveled from Myrtle Beach to West Virginia are also linked to a new outbreak there. On Monday, the state's Preston County counted four additional cases that appeared to be related to the outbreak, bringing the total number of positive cases involved in the outbreak to 30, the Preston County Health Department said in a statement to CBS News on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-students-travel-bring-back-covid-19-ohio-west-virginia/

[Auggie]

1. Mom and Dad may have some big medical bills coming ...

being righteous comes with a big cost.

[BannonsLiver]

4. May those bills bankrupt every last one of them.

[dreamland]

2. When you're young and invincible

Who's to tell them what they can or can't do?

[patphil]

3. Isn't it great to be young, carefree, and a covid-19 vector?

[Midnight Writer]

5. My county had an outbreak from two young guys that went to Mardi Gras.

[underpants]

6. Myrtle Beach is so crowded Pop-ups were banned - EMTs couldn't get to the water.

We went there for 8 or 9 years. In front of our condo it wasn’t so bad but on either side whew.

It was at least 3 families if not 5 deep. Emergency responders would have to go to the next access road to get around the crowd. The county finally banned pop-ups. With umbrellas at least the ATVs could fit through.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Who could have possibly predicted this??? Sarcasm. You can't fix stupid.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Here are the COVID-19 case charts for SC's big beach counties - past two weeks.

Horry County (Myrlte Beach area):



Charleston County (Charleston):



Been there/lived there for a while (south of MYB). It is not a place to be during a pandemic in the summer.

[a la izquierda]

9. We are fucked in WV when students come back for Fall term.

The email faculty received about returning to campus, vis a vis student housing, was so goddamn appalling that I nearly chucked my laptop out a window.