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Are struggling for staff. >> camps across the country rely on international staffers who come on j-1 visas. camp ihc typically employs 200 counsellors from overseas. but this year the vud travel ban forced a number of embassies to stop granting visas, leaving camps like laurens struggling to fill vital positions. >> how big a portion of your counsellors are from overseas? >> so typically anywhere from 30% to 40% will be international. >> how does that compare to what you have this year? >> so we...

But it was an absolute beast of a job getting to that point. >> and joining me now is dasha burns at camp ihc in pennsylvania, northeast pennsylvania. how are the camps navigating this reopening now? now theyve reached the point of having enough staffing, but what other changes do you expect campers will be seeing? >> reporter: andrea, camps have had to get extremely creative. in a typical year about 25,000 camp workers come from abroad on those j-1 visas. this year that number is down to just a...

So dasha, thinking of all the risks that come with sleep away camp, broken bones, sun burn, poison ivy and covid-19, finding p em to work at these places was never a concern until now. so how are the camps adjusting? >> jeff, you know, for a lot of us it is starting to feel like things are getting back to normal. but ill tell you, for the folks tasked with creating that experience of normalcy for us again, they are still facing enormous challenges. typically, 25,000 camp workers a year come from...

Others, unfortunately, have had to close completely. thankfully camp ihc will be opening and welcoming kids this weekend, but while a lot of us are feeling like were starting to get back to normal, camp director lauren said kids are going to have a pretty normal camp experience this time around, but it was anything but normal to make it happen, andrea. >> dasha burns, thank you so much. it looks so inviting. i wish i were there. and joining us is a senior scholar at johns hopkins center for heal...