MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Dryden Quigley, a junior at Duke University, and three friends began making plans to spend spring break in Miami Beach about six weeks ago when the coronavirus still felt relatively distant. It doesn't feel distant now.In the week Quigley, 21, vacationed on Miami Beach: The state
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Dryden Quigley, a junior at Duke University, and three friends began making plans to spend spring break in Miami Beach about six weeks ago when the coronavirus still felt relatively distant. It doesn’t feel distant now.
It is a dilemma shared by students traveling not just to South Florida but to other warm weather spring break destinations such as South Carolina, Texas, Mexico and Jamaica. “We have been an economy based on hospitality and tourism. We had been trying to strike a balance being preventive and not hurting our businesses. The last 24-plus hours really changed all that,” said Jimmy Morales, city manager of Miami Beach. “Our focus now is preventing this from getting worse at all costs. I am sure the kids will still come but they won’t be coming to a ‘party city.’”
Some students decided their youth was enough protection and partied on. Others acknowledged the risks and vowed to practice social distancing, if possible, in bars and on beaches full of people. Some devised plans to stay away from parents and grandparents, a vulnerable group, when they returned home in case they were carrying the disease.
“People were upset,” said Quigley, who leaves Sunday, adding that many of her friends at other schools had now canceled their upcoming spring break plans. “People were on the phone with their parents trying to figure out what to do. It was clear how serious the coronavirus had become.” “Young people who are on spring break are not just sitting having conversations. They are going to multiple places, they are going to parties, they are touching and kissing, they are drinking,” Dr. Lilian Abbo, chief of infection prevention for Jackson Health System and a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said Wednesday.
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