Hundreds of new VA cases reportedly linked to Myrtle Beach visits

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Hundreds of new coronavirus cases have been linked to recent trips to South Carolina's popular resort city, Myrtle Beach, according to reports from local ABC affiliates. Dr. David Goodfriend, director of the Loudoun County Health Department in Virginia, told Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate WJLA that around 100 teenagers from the area have tested positive for COVID-19 after visiting Myrtle Beach.

"We're starting to see more and more positive test results come in, and as we followed up on those, similarly, they had shared they had gone down to Myrtle Beach, at least the Myrtle Beach area," Goodfriend said. "At least one group said there were about 40 folks staying in one house and they were having parties or being at parties with over 100 people in the house."

Dr. Molly O'Dell, director of communicable disease control with the Virginia Department of Health's Roanoke City-Alleghany Districts, told Lynchburg, Virginia ABC affiliate WSET that 130 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the area on Tuesday and that more than 100 of them are linked to Myrtle Beach visits.

O'Dell recommended anyone returning home from Myrtle Beach to self-quarantine for 14 days and watch for symptoms.

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[Hstch05]

1. As a teacher from Virginia

I wish I could say this was a shock, but it's not. Beach week is a tradition that I wish would go away. The only way it could be worse is if they traced the cases to the Outer Banks, which is the location of choice from this part of the state. My students are not taking it seriously, and it shows.

[JudyM]

2. They're dyin' to party.

And then spreading the joy here when they get back.

Still not learning from the epidemiology, just woefully uninformed or actually proving that the “good judgment” part of the brain isn’t fully developed till age 24 or so...?