Cases of the novel coronavirus are spiking in counties in the southern and western regions of the United States, and these hot spots are home to about 450 colleges, some of whose leaders have recently signaled that they might modify their plans for the fall as cases rise.
“If I had to say today would we would reopen, no, because … the ICUs are full,” Robert C. Robbins, president of the University of Arizona, said late last month. “We cannot have a situation where we’re bringing students back to campus, asking our faculty and staff to come back to campus when we’re in truly an exponential growth of the number of cases here.”
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