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UNC-Chapel Hill provost defends withholding county health department pandemic recommendations The Progressive Pulse r director was the G departmentOs official position. UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Bob Blouin OWas this an official position of the health department?O Blouin said. OI guess we didnOt treat it as a position statement. If it was, they would have posted it on their website as a public release.0 The retailed three page memo on health department letterhead, was addressed to Blouin, Guskiewicz and Vice Chancellor George Battle. It was copied to the county health department medical director and the medical director of occupational health care at UNC. It contained the following paragraph: OAt this time, the Orange County Health Department recommends that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consider the following: * Restrict on campus housing to at-risk students with no access to equitable educational resources and those with true housing needs (i.e. International students, Carolina Covenant & marginalized students) * Consider virtual classes for the entire Fall Semester but at minimum begin the first 5 weeks of the semester with online instruction only with plans to reassess the situation at the 5 week mark.0 It also concluded that the departmentOs recommendation did not come lightly but Ofrom the public health perspective with the best information we have at the current http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/08/11/unc-chapel-hill-provost-defends-withholding-county-health-department-pandemic-recommendations/[8/17/20,3:00:47 PM]