[custom_adv] It's spring break and even a pandemic doesn't appear to be stopping some people's plans.As many Americans continue practicing social distancing to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, videos and photos of spring breakers in Florida have poured in, showing many undeterred by the threat of COVID-19. [custom_adv] "If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not going to let it stop me from partying," spring break goer Brady Sluder told Reuters in Miami.As of Thursday morning, there are more than 9,000 reported cases of the virus in the United States killing at least 150 people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised people earlier this week to avoid gatherings of 10 or more people. [custom_adv] Now, with their campuses likely shuttered, most spring breakers will return to hometowns across the country where any exposure to coronavirus could set off a contagion, public-health experts warned. They called for greater vigilance in those communities and sharply criticized Florida authorities for their slowness in closing beaches and nightspots. [custom_adv] Crowds of spring breakers and different seaside lovers in Miami weren’t working towards social distancing as suggested to sluggish the unfold of the lethal coronavirus an infection. [custom_adv] Justin Lessler, a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the crush of swimsuit-clad students consuming large amounts of alcohol could create so-called “super-spreading events” that worsen the pandemic. Still, videos and photos of packed beaches have shown teens and young adults wading in the water [custom_adv] There is some precedent for resort communities being slow to wake up to epidemics. The Austrian village of Ischgl, an Alpine ski destination and party hotspot, was slow to close down its establishments even as other nations issued travel warnings of potential coronavirus exposure. Thousands of revelers returning from vacations in Ischgl spread infections across much of Scandinavia. On Tuesday, Norway said 40 percent of its then-1,400 infections were traced to Ischgl. [custom_adv] Town of Clearwater held a gathering Wednedsay to declare a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic and ordered all public seashores will shut for 2 weeks beginning on Monday. [custom_adv] An indication warns that entry to Hallandale Seashore close to Miramar in Broward County is closed, as a result of coronavirus outbreak. A police automobile is seen guarding the entry to Miami Seashore after native authorities closed bars, eating places and a few areas of seashores. [custom_adv] On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered bars and nightclubs to close for 30 days and directed restaurants to cut their seating capacity by half. That same day he said that beaches could remain open but that groups of more than 10 people would not be allowed in one place.The edict wasn’t enforced. Aerial pictures of hundreds of thousands of beachgoers hit the national airwaves and shocked people in other states where even major thoroughfares were empty.
