Around 100 teenagers from the Washington D.C. area have tested positive for COVID-19 following a trip to Myrtle Beach, a health official said.
David Goodfriend, health director for Loudon County, Virginia, said he recently reached out to Myrtle Beach City Manager John Pedersen with concerns over the city letting 40 or more individuals share a house and hold parties that had more than 100 people in attendance, WMBF reported.
“Affected cases reported up to 50 people staying in single homes and parties involving hundreds of individuals,” Goodfriend’s email read. “Please establish and/or enforce social distancing requirements to help prevent in the future such large numbers of people from getting sick from their visit to Myrtle Beach, and potentially bringing their infection home to people at high risk of dying from COVID-19.”