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Orange County Health Director to UNC-Chapel Hill:Go online as default for Fall semester,restrict on-campus housing I The Progressive Pulse Journalism and Media. OBut there is already some evidence that students and employees and faculty are being affected by COVID.O It is not difficult for those on and around campus to see that some students and community members aren6t taking the pandemic seriously enough. OIf you take a walk on Franklin Street nobody is wearing a mask nobody is social distancing0 Aikat said. OI was there yesterday on Franklin Street. I was appalled.0 While the school is not requiring tests for all students, the new COVID-19 campus dashboard shows 175 total infections among those tested on campus N 139 of them students. That6s a cumulative positive rate of 10.6 percent. The dashboard shows 13 student infections the week of 7/20 and a positive rate of 11.1 percent. It shows 13 student infections for the week of 7/27, the last week before most students began to move onto campus, for a positive rate of 8.6 percent. The current statewide infection rate is 8 percent. In her letter, Stewart advised going to online instruction for the entire Fall semester but at a minimum for at least the first five weeks of classes. She also calls for restricting on campus housing to Oat-risk students with no access to equitable educational resources and those with true housing needs (i.e. International students, Carolina Covenant & marginalized students) in order to provide single-occupancy rooms, which should significantly slow community spread. http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/...e-county-health-director-to-unc-chapel-hill-go-online-as-default-for-fall-semester-restrict-on-campus-housing/[8/18/20,8:36:31 AM]