UNC-Chapel Hill reverses plans for in-person classes after 130 students test positive for Covid-19

[libertybele]

UNC-Chapel Hill reverses plans for in-person classes after 130 students test positive for Covid-19

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill abruptly decided it will no longer hold in-person classes on campus after about 130 students tested positive for Covid-19 in the first week since classes began.
In the past week, the Covid-19 positivity rate among students rose to 13.6% of the 954 students tested, and five employees also tested positive, according to the university's Covid-19 dashboard. As of Monday morning, 177 students were in isolation and 349 were in quarantine, both on and off campus.
Most students with Covid-19 have demonstrated mild symptoms, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert A. Blouin said in a letter to the community.
Effective Wednesday, all undergraduate in-person instruction will shift to remote learning, they write. The university also expects the majority of undergraduate residential students to change their residential plans for the fall.................

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/us/coronavirus-college-university/index.html

[Hoodat]

So the 605 students who followed the rules and tested negative get punished?

[EdinVA]

International Student Diversity at UNC Chapel Hill There is a mid sized group of about 1,627 international students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill representing at least 48 countries.
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/student-life/diversity/#:~:text=International%20Student%20Diversity%20at%20UNC%20Chapel%20Hill%20There,Page%20for%20more%20information.%20Age%20Range%20on%20Campus

So are those 1627 foreign students going home now or was just a ploy to get past the Dept of Ed regulations....

[mountaineer]

So what if they tested positive? Would it have been okay - and school proceeded on schedule - had they tested positive for the usual scourges of college students, e.g., meningitis, mononucleosis and STDs?

[LegalAmerican]

UNC-Chapel Hill reverses plans for in-person classes after 130 students test positive for Covid-19

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill abruptly decided it will no longer hold in-person classes on campus after about 130 students tested positive for Covid-19 in the first week since classes began.
In the past week, the Covid-19 positivity rate among students rose to 13.6% of the 954 students tested, and five employees also tested positive, according to the university's Covid-19 dashboard. As of Monday morning, 177 students were in isolation and 349 were in quarantine, both on and off campus.
Most students with Covid-19 have demonstrated mild symptoms, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert A. Blouin said in a letter to the community.
Effective Wednesday, all undergraduate in-person instruction will shift to remote learning, they write. The university also expects the majority of undergraduate residential students to change their residential plans for the fall.................

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/us/coronavirus-college-university/index.html

Silly.  How many are actually sick?  It is a flu, cold, like any other virus.  WE NOW LIVE IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY. 

[LegalAmerican]

So what if they tested positive? Would it have been okay - and school proceeded on schedule - had they tested positive for the usual scourges of college students, e.g., meningitis, mononucleosis and STDs?

[PeteS in CA]

So UNC-CH knows those 130 got infected in classes, not at frat and sorority parties? Not at BLM "protests"? Not in their dorms?