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Courtesy Henry Litsky The river campus was adorned with new yellow and blue signage making the new COVID-19 policies extremely clear throughout the fall. By Micah Greenberg Features Editor February 07, 2021
This article is part of a series about coronavirus on campus during the Fall 2020 semester.
For the first two months of the fall 2020 semester, students held their breath waiting to get sent home after what felt like an inevitable COVID-19 outbreak. Keeping a college open during a pandemic seemed like an impossible goal, and as colleges like nearby St. John Fisher cancelled in-per
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Updated at 1:55 pm on Monday: The BU Dental Health Center at 930 Comm Ave will close for patient care at 5:00 pm this evening, Monday, Feb. 1, and the Patient Treatment Centers at 635 Albany Street will close for patient care at 5:30 pm
With at least a foot of snow anticipated, and possibly more, starting midday on Monday, Boston University announced Sunday night that the Charles River Campus will be closed for the day as of 6 am, that all classes and academic activities should continue remotely at their scheduled times, and that all nonessential staff should work remotely.
Also on Sunday night, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh declared a snow emergency for the city from Monday night through Tuesday afternoon and a parking ban starting at noon Monday.
WSU recently created a COVID-19 dashboard that allows students, staff and community members to get a better look at case numbers and other related data.
The dashboard shows positivity rates, positive tests and active cases of students and employees, said Hailey Rupp, WSU emergency operations project manager for COVID-19.
“It’s important to note that some of these statistics include people who don’t necessarily live in Pullman or Washington since we have a lot of employees who come in from Idaho,” she said.
The dashboard went live last week and is updated with new data every day. The positive case count renews every 14 days (the end of a quarantine period), said Guy Palmer, regents professor of pathology and infectious diseases.