Fauci: Keep students on campus after outbreak
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, listens during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington.[Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP]
Dr. Anthony Fauci says it wouldn’t be smart for college administrators to send students home if there’s an outbreak on campus.
Fauci told senators that would only make matters worse. That’s because it could make the returning students into disease carriers.
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Colleges and universities should plan to accommodate students who’ve been exposed to the coronavirus in a separate dorm or maybe a separate floor — that’s if the infected students don’t need to be hospitalized.
“But do not send them home to their community,” Fauci says, “because of the likelihood of them reseeding infection in a community.”