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Emails show faculty, health officials expressed concern over UNC-Chapel Hill's COVID-19 plan before August reopening - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham <br />https://abc11.com/unc-covid-nc-coronavirus/7029408/[10/19/20, 3:46:34 PM] <br />the different ramifications of any different decision <br />and we all kind of recognize that we all rise and fall <br />together so we can't make things good for faculty but <br />not good for students or good for business owners and <br />not good for some other group," she said. <br />Webb said he and other students are still very <br />concerned about the lack of a wide-scale testing plan. <br />"Until that plan is put in place, students are really <br />saying that we don't feel safe coming back to campus. <br />We don't view it as any different circumstance than <br />where we were in March," he said. "This virus is still <br />very prominent. This virus is still very dangerous and <br />deadly. Students, the most important stakeholders of <br />the university, don't want to be thrust back into an <br />unhealthy environment." <br />Chapman said the provost does have a small working <br />group focused on testing and is evaluating what testing <br />options might be adopted. <br />Kramer pointed to testing as one of the university's <br />weaknesses in the fall. <br />Chapman said, while UNC is involving more voices this <br />time around, she hopes the overarching UNC System is <br />also considering things differently too for the spring. <br />"Recognizing that each of the UNC System campuses <br />has different needs and will be in different places in <br />the spring, some counties may have low viral loads and <br />some may have high viral load and that those <br />campuses need to be able to respond to their <br />conditions and this can't be a one size fit all and it can't <br />be a thing where so many decisions have to be <br />negotiated that it undermines trust in the process,"