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Colleges Canceled Spring Break, But Students Are Traveling Anyway at 4:01 am NPR Hoarse voices reminiscing about last night's wild time; young people in oversized university t-shirts crowding the liquor store; a cabal of high heels waiting for ride shares, with nary a mask in sight. Pandemic or not, it's spring break in Miami Beach, Fla. At a hotel restaurant overlooking the beach on Thursday, a group of students from the University of Georgia raised their cocktails to celebrate the start of the weekend. The University of Georgia is one of many colleges that decided to canc...
Originally published on March 18, 2021 5:36 am Hoarse voices reminiscing about last night's wild time; young people in oversized university t-shirts crowding the liquor store; a cabal of high heels waiting for ride shares, with nary a mask in sight. Pandemic or not, it's spring break in Miami Beach, Fla. At a hotel restaurant overlooking the beach on Thursday, a group of students from the University of Georgia raised their cocktails to celebrate the start of the weekend. The University of Georgia is one of many colleges that decided to cancel or alter spring break — which typically happens...
Each day I feature a listener question sent by one of these methods. Email: brianmudd@iheartmedia.com Today’s entry: The spring break virus stories are being hyped again. I never heard anything conclusive about how many people really spread the virus on the beach. Was there anything conclusive or all just suspected? Bottom Line: Yeah, there’s no doubt last year’s Spring Break contributed to the spread of COVID and there are two specific studies recognized by the CDC which gave us an idea of the extent of it. The first study involved students traveling from the University of Texas ...