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In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:03 AM Mar 2020

NY Coronavirus: Bringing Back 300 CUNY, SUNY Students Abroad

ALBANY, NY — Students at SUNY and CUNY schools who are studying abroad in China, Iran, Italy, Japan or South Korea, where coronavirus outbreaks are most widespread, will be brought back to New York. They'll be quarantined for 14 days, state officials said Wednesday morning.

The students will be flown on a charter plane into Stewart Airport in Orange County, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news briefing in Albany.

About 300 students will be brought back. They'll be quarantined in dormitories where there is excess capacity, state officials said. Those dorms identified so far are on Long Island, in Western New York and in the Utica-Rome area.


Cuomo made the announcement before heading to Westchester County to meet with local officials about the outbreak there. The wife and two children of the New Rochelle attorney in serious condition with coronavirus, plus the neighbor who drove him to the hospital, have all tested positive, the governor said. SEE: 6 Now Confirmed With Coronavirus In NY.
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NY Coronavirus: Bringing Back 300 CUNY, SUNY Students Abroad (Original Post) In_The_Wind Mar 2020 OP
The University of Oklahoma is bringing back students from a study abroad in Italy as well. redstatebluegirl Mar 2020 #1
Marist (in Poughkeepsie, NY) is bringing back students from Italy. In_The_Wind Mar 2020 #2
makes no sense...... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #3
Yup, don't understand why they are being brought back. dhol82 Mar 2020 #4

getagrip_already

(17,517 posts)
3. makes no sense......
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:08 AM
Mar 2020

The virus is in new york. There will end up being more cases here than in italy.

You can't relocate away from this virus. Projections show 40%-70% of the population will eventually be exposed and carry the virus.

This is cray-cray. But I get they are getting pressure from parents.

dhol82

(9,457 posts)
4. Yup, don't understand why they are being brought back.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:19 AM
Mar 2020

Medical care is as good, if not better, in those other countries. What is the purpose of contaminating airplanes and dormitories, then creating another method of infection here?
I don’t get it.

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