Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

September 29, 2020

Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus — North Carolina, August 2020

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  • Within 2 weeks of opening the campus to students (Aug 3 – Aug 25), a North Carolina university experienced 670 COVID-19 cases. Preliminary investigations suggest student gatherings and congregate living settings, both on and off campus, likely contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19 on campus. The authors state that measures to reduce transmission on college campuses could include reducing on-campus housing density, ensuring that campus community members adhere to masking and other mitigation strategies, increasing testing, and discouraging student gatherings.

Wilson et al. (Sept 29, 2020). Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus — North Carolina, August 2020. MMWR. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6939e3