The main campus of the University of North Carolina opened this past week. They already have 4 clusters of COVID-19 in student housing: 3 in the dorms, and 1 in a frat house. The first cluster was reported 2 days ago.
A Faculty Executive Committee has scheduled a special zoom meeting for Monday to make recommendations about how to go forward. Due note that on most campuses, faculty have the least power to make things happen.
Like Utah, North Carolina has a uniform COVID-19 policy statewide for higher education. A representative of faculty at UNC has written to the state government asking for that to be rescinded so that decisions can be made on a campus by campus basis.
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Clustering is significant, not because it drives total numbers up, but because it indicates a failure of systems in place (like social distancing, and better hygiene) to limit transmission.
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