Wednesday, February 24, 2021

As U-Va. and U-Md. try to curb surge in coronavirus cases, neighboring communities brace themselves


One campus, in Maryland, temporarily canceled in-person classes after coronavirus infections surged past 60 cases two days in a row. The other, in Virginia, kept classrooms open even after it logged 229 cases in a single day.

The region’s flagship universities — the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Virginia — have tracked an alarming uptick in the number of viral cases on campus. And each school has taken a different approach to curbing the spread, illustrating the tensions and uncertainty of trying to operate major research universities in the pandemic and preserve public health...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/uva-umd-covid-cases-colleges/2021/02/22/7890b542-754c-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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