BA.5 is pummeling Jewish summer camps, sickening campers and canceling visiting days
August 5, 2022

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Due to rising COVID cases, many Jewish summer camps have decided to cancel "visiting day."
(JTA) - So many campers were sick with COVID-19 last week at Ramah New England that its director, Rabbi Ed Gelb, put out a call to families: Would any nurses be willing to come to camp for a few days to help?
"We have a large and capable nursing staff, but more help would be great," he wrote.
Gelb's request came in an extended email about the state of the pandemic at the Palmer, Massachusetts, Jewish camp, in which he said some buildings had been transformed temporarily into infirmaries. But unlike some other camps, he said, Ramah New England would not be introducing universal masking or su...
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