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1 in 6 COVID cases in NY hit college-aged people this fall. Now, they're coming home
David Robinson
New York State Team
Published 5 a.m. Nov. 23, 2020
College-aged people accounted for about 16% of New York’s coronavirus positive tests in September and October after many campuses reopened, the biggest age-related chunk of COVID-19 cases at the time.
The newly reported statistic, covering COVID-19 infections among 18- to 22-year-old people, offered the first statewide glimpse of the virus’s spread on New York college campuses, some of which struggled to curb party fueled outbreaks.
Now, college students are fanning out to return home for the holidays and authorities are striving to prevent them from spreading the virus to older Americans more vulnerable to the respiratory disease.
“With the holidays approaching, we are fighting living-room spread from small gatherings in private homes and adding college students' interstate travel will be like pouring gasoline on a fire,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week....
1 in 6 COVID cases in NY hit college-aged people this fall. Now, they're coming home
David Robinson
New York State Team
Published 5 a.m. Nov. 23, 2020
College-aged people accounted for about 16% of New York’s coronavirus positive tests in September and October after many campuses reopened, the biggest age-related chunk of COVID-19 cases at the time.
The newly reported statistic, covering COVID-19 infections among 18- to 22-year-old people, offered the first statewide glimpse of the virus’s spread on New York college campuses, some of which struggled to curb party fueled outbreaks.
Now, college students are fanning out to return home for the holidays and authorities are striving to prevent them from spreading the virus to older Americans more vulnerable to the respiratory disease.
“With the holidays approaching, we are fighting living-room spread from small gatherings in private homes and adding college students' interstate travel will be like pouring gasoline on a fire,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week....
