As hospitals have braced for — or are already treating — a surge of Covid-19 patients overwhelming their capacity, colleges have stepped up by offering space in empty dormitories, gymnasiums, conference centers, even ice rinks.
The offers have come from institutions including Tufts University, which announced on April 6 that it would make its residence halls available to house medical personnel and first responders, as well as patients. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Lowell Center, a conference and hotel facility, reopened on April 1 as a voluntary isolation center for people who have tested positive for Covid-19, while Dejope Residence Hall has become a respite facility for health-care workers. The University of Nebraska system has signed an agreement with the state to provide quarantine housing on the Lincoln, Kearney, and Omaha campuses; Oakland University, in Michigan, opened up a 750-bed residence hall to health-care providers; and Middlebury College drained its Kenyon Arena ice rink so that the space could be used, if needed, as a temporary hospital.
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