The nation’s leading voice on the response to the coronavirus outbreak, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said sending sick college students back to their hometowns is “the worst thing you can do.”
Appearing on NBC’s Today Show, Fauci said the best thing is for students to isolate themselves at college so they don’t spread the virus to their families back home.
IU officials are recommending all Greek houses on campus close because of a surge in virus cases. They are urging some people living in the houses to move out and find another place to live in Bloomington or return home, if possible.
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Monroe County Health Administrator Penny Caudill said the goal is to remove infected people from the houses so they cannot be a risk to the others.
“And there will be some houses who can successfully isolate students, " Caudill said."And there will be houses that simply don’t really have those means.”
About 2,600 students live in Greek houses at IU or other forms of communal housing.
Testing at some fraternity and sorority houses found infection rates above 50%.
IU Provost Lauren Robel said the university is willing to work with the city of Bloomington to help find alternative sites for displaced Greek students.
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