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An incoming freshman queries a university employee upon arriving on campus at University of ColoradoOf the country’s 25 worst Covid-19 outbreaks over the past two weeks, 19 are in towns with colleges; the five communities with the highest number of coronavirus cases per capita all house colleges with at least 15,000 students enrolled.
Topping the list, with 1,562 cases per 100,000 people, is Harrisonburg, Virginia, where James Madison University is located. it was sending its students home and switching primarily to online courses on September 1 after reporting over 500 coronavirus cases less than a week after in-person classes started.
The communities housing Washington State University, Central Texas College, Georgia Southern University and Iowa State University are also all reporting over 1,100 cases per 100,000 residents. While some of these colleges aren’t hosting in-person classes, many students have returned to the area around campus anyway,In Whitman County, Washington, for example, just 70 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 residents were reported before Washington State University students returned to the area , and now, the number is up to 1,295. Young people are less at risk of dying from coronavirus.
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