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Let's support our fellow Sharks by respecting everyone's physical space, washing your hands, and staying home when sick. A vaccine is widely available and effective. Anyone who wants to be vaccinated has the opportunity to do so. A letter reminding students of the new policy was sent out to students this past week, when students returned to campus.

Under the new policy, disposable surgical masks or other medical-grade masks, including N95, KN95 and KF94 masks are now required. A cloth mask can only be worn if paired with a surgical mask. Philip Wajda, a spokesman of the college, said the policy was adopted after a growing body of research found cloth masks are not as effective in slowing the spread of the omicron variant, a highly-contagious strain of the virus that has sent caseloads and hospitalizations skyrocketing.

He added that the college is also advising students to limit the amount of time their masks are pulled down while eating and drinking and that masks are not required while students are in residence halls or while employees are alone in their office. Colleges and other organizations have implemented similar policies as a way to curtail the spread of the virus, including the University of Southern California and the University of Arizona.

Vaccination, appropriate masking practices, hand hygiene, and social distancing continue to be the best mitigation control factors against the spread of COVID The change in policy comes as a growing number of health officials have called for people to abandon cloth face coverings in favor of medical-grade masks as a way to slow the surging virus, and as the Biden Administration weighs sending free N95 masks to residents across the country.

Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the CDC is weighing a change to its mask guidelines that would recommend Americans wear a KN95 or N95 masks if they can tolerate doing do. The masks, the newspaper reported, are far more effect at filtering particles than cloth coverings but are less comfortable and more expensive, which is why the CDC has yet to adopt a policy requiring the masks to be worn. On Tuesday, Dr. Cloth masks have been shown to stop large droplets and were encouraged in the early days of the pandemic due to a limited supply of N95 masks, which were then reserved for medical personnel.

There have been at least two suicides connected with West Virginia University since the pandemic began. Eric Domanico, a freshman on full scholarship there, died by suicide in July , soon after students were sent home in the first wave of the pandemic. Eric was already emotionally fragile, his father, Frank Domanico, said.

In a poignant forecast of the perils of isolation, The Yale Daily News interviewed Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum, a first-year student from Anchorage, Alaska, in the fall of as she moved into her dormitory room alone — because of COVID restrictions — and went into preemptive quarantine.

Her students often are balancing work, children and school — and can be under enormous financial pressure. Cassie Guinto, a second-year student there, offered tutoring services this semester to first-year students. But she noticed that many students who sought academic help did not need it.

They had been shut inside in their last year of high school. University of Kentucky officials said they were especially worried about first-year students, who seemed to have a harder time adjusting than earlier generations. There is no doubt that missing a large chunk of college has changed the social dynamic on campus, as if students were all Rip Van Winkles, returning from a long slumber.

Josh Nagra went home to lockdown as a freshman at Claremont McKenna and returned to the California campus this fall as a junior. In that time, he found, everyone had changed, and he could no longer rely on the same friends.

Students are asking for help. More than 9, people signed a petition asking for more mental health services at Saint Louis University. The student government at West Virginia University is asking for state aid. The pandemic pushed her over the edge, her mother, Pamela Shaw, said in a phone call from Anchorage. She had tried to convince her daughter to take a gap year until the pandemic receded. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD via YouTubeParents and community members have called for a Houston school board trustee to resign after he savagely critiqued Black teachers during a racist rant at a school board meeting.

In a school board meeting on Jan. Oliver Baker tussled with an anti-vaxx student during a pro-vaccine rally but was cleared by a court in November.

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