The sheer magnitude of likely infections has made campus administrators understandably cautious about how their institutions could cope
senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Campuses are fully vaccinated yet they are acting as if they’re helpless in the face of Covid-19.”
Campus health centers would be overrun with cases, health care workers would get sick, depleting their already thin ranks, many classes would be canceled, on-campus events would be scrapped, staff and faculty would be at greater risk to be serious casualties, and local communities could face outbreaks that would swamp their health care systems.
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