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Notre Dame Supends Classes for Two Weeks After Surge
Aug 19, 2020, 2:47 AM
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Notre Dame becomes latest university to suspend in-person classes
The University of Notre Dame on Tuesday suspended in-person classes and moved them online for at least two weeks after seeing a surge in coronavirus cases, the latest university to roll back campus reopenings.
Notre Dame University President John Jenkins announced the decision after the prestigious Catholic university near South Bend, Indiana, reported a spike of 80 positive test results on Monday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 147 since Aug. 3, according to the university's website.
The results from 418 tests represented a positivity rate of 19 percent at the school with overall positivity at around 16 percent since Aug. 3.
Notre Dame will close all public spaces on campus, restrict residence halls to residents only and limit gatherings to ten people always wearing masks, Jenkins said in an online video presentation.
"If these steps are not successful we will have to send students home as we did last spring," Jenkins said, adding the university's contact tracing analysis indicated most infections were from off-campus gatherings.
Before returning to campus all students were tested - only 33 of nearly 12,000 were positive, a rate of only 0.28 percent. The university did not immediately respond to a request for further comment on the rise in cases.
The university, with about 8,600 undergraduates, had most students and faculty on campus by Aug. 10 with restrictions on travel, events and visitors.
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Re: Notre Dame Supends Classes for Two Weeks After Surge
Aug 19, 2020, 4:10 AM
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We may be seeing alot of this sadly. Kinda figured this would happen. In person classes would have faired better by waiting a little longer. A lot can change in 6 months. But imo, its tooo soon.
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Re: Notre Dame Supends Classes for Two Weeks After Surge
Aug 19, 2020, 4:58 AM
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Cornflake, I bet your nerves are completely shot at a four way stop sign.
One day just live a little and venture over to the wild side. Go crazy and rip the tag off a mattress or say screw it and only wait 29 minutes after eating to get in the pool.
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Re: Notre Dame Supends Classes for Two Weeks After Surge
Aug 19, 2020, 9:17 AM
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Outlaw, cornflakes is seeing the signs, not being negative. NC, NCSt, and ND or three signals from the ACC that may get in the way of football. From a Clemson standpoint although only one of our games we still need to remember that we have to go to GAt and FSU in two terribly managed states on covid responses. Maybe you are under reacting.
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