Notre Dame Reports 54 New Coronavirus Cases In One Week, But Will Stay Open—For Now

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a total of 58 Covid-19 cases since students returned to campus on August 3, the first positive test showing up three days after students first moved in.at least two off-campus parties where students did not wear masks or practice social distancing as outbreak sources.

“What is reinforced is our concern that it only takes a weak link,” said university spokesperson Paul Browne, who emphasized the university’s “confidence” it can get the virus back under control and make it through the semester. that Notre Dame is continually assessing whether its safe to keep the campus open, looking at several factors including the “sheer number” of cases and positivity rate of tests.

Given this advice and the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says colleges should closing buildings and ending in-person classes after Covid-19 outbreaks, Notre Dame could well follow the lead of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which called off in-person classes one week into the semester. the move to remote learning in a Monday letter after the university reported four coronavirus clusters at the Chapel Hill campus—three in student dormitories and one that affected an off-campus fraternity house.

 

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Are they sick? Really sick? Asymptomatic?pre existing conditions? False positive? Let’s here whole story- and it sounds like they had it before they got to campus. Perhaps start of herd immunity on campus- hopefully they are all fine and will recover

They were warned.

So if it a 14 day incubation period they got before they returned.

When are we going to realize the Covid situation

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