WMU requires masks to be worn indoors, effective immediately
FOX 17
and last updated 2021-08-04 16:49:45-04
KALAMAZOO, Mich. â Western Michigan University students, staff and visitors are all required to wear face masks indoors, the school announced
Weâre told the policy takes effect immediately.
âThe updated expectations announced today are intended to safeguard all of us in the face of a newly rising case rate locally,â says WMU. âWhen the transmission rate falls to below the âsubstantialâ threshold, our mask requirement will return to our previous policy of requiring masks for students, faculty and staff who have not verified their vaccination status in the Sindecuse Health Center patient portal.â
ROB CHANEY
On another March Friday on another planet, the University of Montana Grizzly basketball team was warming up for tournament play in Boise when Seth Bodnar made the call.
âIt was a world ago and the world was shutting down,â the UM president recalled a year later. âI had to call (basketball head coach) Travis DeCuire â they were in the middle of shoot-around â and say âhey, Travis, sorry, weâre ending this. Weâre bringing you back. â
That was March 13, 2020, the day the University of Montana and much of the United States locked down in a defensive crouch. The World Health Organizationâs Inspector General reported 132,000 cases of COVID-19 in 123 countries and territories, and at least 5,000 deaths. A year later, there would be one hundred times that many dead in the United States alone.