North Carolina’s flagship university is switching all undergraduate classes to remote learning after the coronavirus spread during the first week of classes.
At fraternity houses and Hollywood mansions, parties that defy public health orders are fueling a coronavirus surge in the young.University officials in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama were likewise frustrated by scenes of crowded bars and other nightspot areas on the first weekend many students returned to school.
“If you don’t want to protect yourself and you don’t want to protect your family and you don’t want to protect your friends and thousands of jobs, maybe, just maybe, you would want to protect football season so we can have it this fall,” Maddox said.Some universities are moving ahead with fall classes as planned even as cases pop up. At Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., where a dozen students tested positive last month after an off-campus gathering, classes start Aug.
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