UNC Chapel Hill to move undergraduate classes fully remote amid outbreaks of COVID-19

The school leaders said they made the decision"in consultation with state and local health officials, Carolina's infectious disease experts and the UNC System."

Students walk on campus during the first day of classes during the Coronavirus pandemic, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Aug. 10, 2020.The school, which has more than 19,000 undergraduate students, had already started the fall with reduced numbers on campus. Residence halls were at under 60% capacity and under 30% of total classroom seats were taught in-person, officials said.

UNC's graduate, professional and health affairs schools are unaffected at this time, school officials said.The move comes following calls for the campus to go remote.

And strangely not a single one in ICU. 🤔

The virus doesn’t care what you believe or think...it doesn’t care if you are a 3rd grader or Ph D...it doesn’t care if you are a nerd or college football player...you are a potential host!

daaah ! so much for a hoax one that makes living as we use to know it dangerous and even college students sick and in danger of death or worse

Shocking

Bait & Switch

No shit

Universities reeling in those kids to get $$$ when they knew this would happen. Professors are lucky but staff like housekeeping and food services are still at high risk, but none cares about those hard working people....

Trump, open the schools he said, it will be fine he said, schools after one wk, 'shit-show, shut er down'

Why do you watch abc news they praise Biden who can’t keep two sentences together and gives trump 150 times more negative coverage. They are a progressive socialist front. This is what Hitler did. He used the media to gain powe.

Such a waste. More lefty feelings superseding reality. You cheer on BLM riots but ridicule education over COVID concerns? ABC news blows.

Prime example, okay with playing football, but nope, no in person classes

So why did your news report refer to them as NC State? FakeNews

ReddHeadd_13 Like no one saw this coming. Will be happening in HS too. Let’s leave a pandemic in the hands teenagers-21 year olds 🤦🏼‍♀️ All schools with me remote by October and the numbers will skyrocket and everything will close down again. Great job politicians.

But Trump said kids were almost immune.

It’s almost like this was predicted all along

This is only the beginning.

117 confirmed positive, 300+ in quarantine. I'm guessing their Microbiology department isn't what you would hope for from a university.

Who would have thought that college students consider themselves invincible and immune?

The checks cleared so there ya go. cashisking

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