West Virginia University announces it will suspend in-person classes at its main campus amid concerns over a recent spike in coronavirus infections.
"This pause in face-to-face undergraduate instruction will give us time to monitor the steadily climbing cases of COVID-19," Dr. Jeffrey Coben, associate vice president of health affairs and dean of the School of Public Health, said in a statement."There is increasing evidence that crowded indoor gatherings, such as those that occurred over the weekend, can serve as super-spreader events.
The university said that it suspended 29 students Sunday amid"ongoing COVID-19 investigations" and that"additional sanctions are pending."prevent students from spreading the coronavirusCorey Farris, the dean of students at WVU, said students who had traveled home for the Labor Day weekend"and have their materials to learn remotely" should stay where they are, while students who did not travel should remain in Morgantown.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's leading infectious disease expert, has urged colleges not to send students home if possible. "It's the worst thing you could do," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,"When you send them home, particularly when you're dealing with a university where people come from multiple different locations, you could be seeding the different places with infection," he said.
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