Another person who attended Lake of the Ozarks on Memorial Day weekend
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Date: 2020-06-24

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A Kansas resident was identified as being at the Lake of the Ozarks on Memorial Day weekend, said Elizabeth Holzschuh, an epidemiologist with the Johnson County, Kansas, Department of Health and Environment.The latest case comes weeks about two weeks afteran initial person, a resident of Boone County, Missouri,tested positive for the virus and was possibly infectious over the holiday weekend."As the stay at home orders have decreased we have started seeing additional individuals in the younger age groups" including people in their 20s and 30s becoming infected, Holzschuh said.Johnson County, a suburb of Kansas City, currently has 992 cases of Covid-19.The newly identified person visited the same bar as the Boone County resident, who visited multiple bars on May 24 and 25, according to the Camden County Health Department.Video from that weekend shows partiers crowded together in a pool at Backwater Jacks Bar and Grill in Osage Beach, according to Scott Pasmore, an anchor for CNN affiliate KTVK, who shot the footage."With the influx of 700,000+ visitors to the Lake of the Ozarks area on a holiday weekend, it was inevitable that we would experience carriers of the virus, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic," Backwater Jacks said in a May 30 statement posted on its Facebook page. "This will continue throughout our season. Unfortunately, the virus will be part of our lives for the unseen future." The bars statement then says it encourages those "who are easily compromised, showing symptoms, have knowingly been in contact with a confirmed case or highly at risk, to please stay home." Backwater Jacks is already promoting its July 4 pool party event "Zero Ducks Given Pool Party." This was also the name of the Memorial Day Weekend event. "However, we believe each of our customers have the freedom to choose whether they want to visit Backwater Jacks or not," the statement read. Timeline of infected persons movementsCamden County health officials urged those who