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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully universities have paid attention to this: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/xx/65-d646ad78-2a94-4fb3-bf07-9d7a7d833c03. They could set themselves up for liability with regard to how quickly they notify students about COVID-19 and how they respond with regard to cleaning and mitigating risks to other students.

At my university, there were a couple of suspected COVID cases back in January, from international students returning from China. The university sent out emails to keep everyone updated on the test results. They eventually came back negative, but it was unnerving. I can't imagine what will happen to student morale if there is an outbreak on a campus and everyone is just continually getting emails about possible and confirmed cases, and then wondering what the college is doing to try to contain the outbreak. No easy answers here. [/quote]

PP here. I guess the link isn't working. It's about the family of a UMD student who died of adenovirus. I'm not sure what the latest is, but the family at least took steps toward a lawsuit because the they claim that the university took too long to notify students about another case where the student was hospitalized or do enough to make the dorms safer.[/quote]

That was such a sad story.  That virus was also unkown to most at the time. COVID is extremely known now and families can make their decisions accordingly based on comfort levels with the risk. [/quote]

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