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When a cool river is a coronavirus hot spot
by Anita Miller
Nothing takes the edge off the Texas summer sun like a float on a cool, spring-fed river.
As it turns out, the coronavirus flourishes in that same environment.
Floating the San Marcos, Guadalupe and Comal rivers was among the high-risk activities brought forward by Hays County Epidemiologist Eric Schneider on Wednesday during a Zoom press conference with area media.
Hays County had 441 positive cases on June 8 and 1,093 on June 16.
People in their 20s accounted for 125 of those cases ...