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Despite record-high COVID-19 cases and positivity rates during the first week of the spring 2022 semester, University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials remain optimistic about the weeks ahead.

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on Feb. 24 to include updated data from UNL’s COVID-19 Dashboard. Over 20,000 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty, staff and students have either had a cotton swab inserted into their nose or spit into a tube in the past two weeks in preparation for the start of the spring 2021 semester. UNL opened its new, mandatory saliva-based testing program to students in the Nebraska College of Law, Nebraska College of Technical, University of Nebraska...