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- Dr. Anthony Fauci says that 'the worst thing you can do' is send students who test positive for COVID-19 home where they can infect their friends and family.
- Some schools have dorms set up to quarantine sick students, but others are sending students home, and this could cause outbreaks in their hometowns.
- Labor Day weekend could be especially dangerous as students take trips and visit friends and family.
The number of new reported COVID-19 cases in the US was decreasing at an encouraging rate throughout much of August, but began to stall out at the end of the month. There are undoubtedly plenty of factors that contributed to the sudden plateau, but it seems relevant that schools around the country began to open in August. In fact, as we noted earlier this week, 9 of the 10 worst outbreaks in America were taking place in college towns.
To that point, Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation's top infectious disease experts and a member of the coronavirus task force, appeared on NBC's The Today Show this week and warned that sending students home from universities or colleges when they test positive for COVID-19 is "the worst thing you can do."
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