Jewish Summer Camps Are Already Preparing For Coronavirus
(JTA) — As swine flu swept through the United States in the late spring of 2009, Jewish summer camps took some drastic measures.
Kids at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in New York (Courtesy of Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake)
One set up a quarantined area where some 45 infected kids and counselors lived apart from the rest of the camp. Another took every camper’s temperature twice a day and sent children home if the result topped 100. The measures were onerous, but campers got used to them.