Right now, the COVID-19 vaccine is only approved for those 12 and older.With summer camps back in session, camp leaders had to decide whether or not to require masks this year for campers and councilors. This year the boys and girls club’s executive director, Tanya Benosky, made the decision to require masks for campers and councilors when indoors since many young kids are still not vaccinated.”One of the most important things we can do is model good behavior so when we’re inside we’re all wearing masks,” Benosky said. Campers like Dalib Ali, 11, said wearing his mask is basically second nature. “We’ve been wearing it for a while so it doesn’t really bother me that much anymore,” Ali said. The Chittenden County Humane Society is taking a different approach with Camp Paw Paw, where staff won’t be wearing masks and campers can decide for themselves. “There’s been no friction between anybody that is or is not wearing a mask,” said Erin Alamed, Director of Volunteer and Community Outreach at Humane Society of Chittenden County.Alamed said parents were eager to enroll their kids into camp this summer, and all of their sessions are fully booked. Right now, pediatric trials for COVID-19 vaccines are underway for children. If it goes well, it could mean that kids under 12 may become eligible for a vaccine by this fall or winter.
Right now, the COVID-19 vaccine is only approved for those 12 and older.
With summer camps back in session, camp leaders had to decide whether or not to require masks this year for campers and councilors.
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This year the boys and girls club’s executive director, Tanya Benosky, made the decision to require masks for campers and councilors when indoors since many young kids are still not vaccinated.
“One of the most important things we can do is model good behavior so when we’re inside we’re all wearing masks,” Benosky said.
Campers like Dalib Ali, 11, said. wearing his mask is basically second nature.
“We’ve been wearing it for a while so it doesn’t really bother me that much anymore,” Ali said.
The Chittenden County Humane Society is taking a different approach with Camp Paw Paw, where staff won’t be wearing masks and campers can decide for themselves.
“There’s been no friction between anybody that is or is not wearing a mask,” said Erin Alamed, Director of Volunteer and Community Outreach at Humane Society of Chittenden County.
Alamed said parents were eager to enroll their kids into camp this summer, and all of their sessions are fully booked.
Right now, pediatric trials for COVID-19 vaccines are underway for children. If it goes well, it could mean that kids under 12 may become eligible for a vaccine by this fall or winter.
