Anna Yusza felt the deepening toll of COVID-19 during the spring, months before she enrolled at Quinnipiac University where strict social distancing guidelines and mask-wearing made college a less than normal experience for most students. Yet Yusza, 18, a first-year accounting major at the Hamden, Connecticut, school, knew what to expect based on her high…
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By: Kaye Paddyfote 1 in 1,125 Black Americans has died (or 88.4 deaths per 100,000) according to APM Research Lab. That is the highest amount for any race in America. This is a problem because the health care system is failing Black Americans because they are dying of this virus at higher numbers.
And what will they do moving forward? By Connor Ullathorne The world came to a stand-still. Businesses shut down. All sporting events, from pickup basketball games at a local gym, to professional sports and NCAA’s March Madness, were canceled or postponed. “Probably one of the eeriest days of my life,” Maggie Pruitt, an assistant director…
Quinnipiac students share their thoughts on a university cut short by a quarantine.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything in its path, but perhaps one of its biggest impacts has been on education.
Quinnipiac University students are leaving campus for the remainder of the semester earlier than planned following the red alert level announcement. Due to the high-risk environment that Quinnipiac has become, living on campus poses more threatening health concerns than before. In response, the university started enforcing a mandatory quarantine, only allowing students to leave their…
One. That’s how many positive COVID-19 cases Quinnipiac University had on Oct. 1. Just 42 days later, that number has risen to 422. Of those, 247 are from Nov. 4-10, and 80 are from Monday and Tuesday alone. According to Quinnipiac’s COVID-19 dashboard, the university has 321 students in isolation, and its current risk level…
Quinnipiac students are facing a university-wide quarantine after a massive surge in positive cases.
(Additional reporting by David Rooney) Quinnipiac University has announced that it has entered alert level red. The announcement came on Nov. 6, in a message sent to the Quinnipiac community. This comes following an update that 115 new positive COVID-19 tests were reported between Nov. 4 and Nov. 6. “This weekend we must be especially…
The university will be holding remote classes for the remainder of the week