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ITHACA, NY -- This year, Ithaca turned 200 years old — on March 16, 1821, an act was signed by Gov. DeWitt Clinton officially establishing the town of Ithaca. The

Basically canceled large in-person events and moved finals to online. beyond that, nyu is requiring that students and staff when they come back following the holiday break next year for the spring semester, they all have to have their booster shots. students as well as staff. now, this is something that not only nyu is doing but other colleges here in new york, fordham university is doing it, ithaca college, not ithaca, cornell university and ithaca is doing it as well as princeton in new jersey and cornell earlier this week essentially shut down its campus because of what they called an alert...

If you are unvaccinated, get vaccinated, and particularly in the arena of omicron, if you are fully vaccinated, get your booster shot. >> omicron appears to be highly transmissible. but preliminary studies show it might not be as severe as the delta variant. cornell university shut down its ithaca, new york campus in the middle of finals. 100 students tested positive for covid, many of them with the omicron variant. princeton university announced starting tomorrow their finals will also move online. joining me now is nbc news medical contributor dr. natalie azar, a rheumatologist at nyulan nyu...

>> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ the world health organization issuing an urgent warning about the fast moving spread of the omicron variant across the globe as the cases rise here in the u.s. in new york cornell university shutting down its ithaca campus after a rapid spread of covid among students. the school says many of the cases are the variant found in students who have been fully vaccinated including some who received the booster as well. and the nfl setting a single day record for covid cases across the league this past week with 36 players and one staff membe...

After the college detected over 400 positive coronavirus cases and its first Omicron case, the school shut down its main campus.