On Tuesday, Cornell moved all final exams online, canceled all university activities, closed libraries and encouraged students to pick up 'grab-and-go' food in the dining halls. But some students say the response should have been quicker.
. Despite a 97% vaccination rate on campus, the university said it had reported a spike in cases and evidence of the omicron variant in a significant number of the positive results."Ninety-seven percent of the campus is fully vaccinated, a large portion of them have booster shots and there's mandatory masking, and we still have this uptick," said Joe Silverstein, a student at Cornell.
"It seems like the second that, you know, that there are cases happening in vaccinated students of that magnitude, you need to assume that it is just going to catch like wildfire," Pacheco said. As part of its plan to prevent the spread of the virus among students, Cornell had housing where students living on-campus who tested positive for the virus could stay for the duration of their quarantine.
In a statement, a Cornell spokesperson said the university is working closely with the county's health department to coordinate on isolation protocols and to assist students who have tested positive.
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