{"id":381097,"date":"2021-12-15T00:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cornell-university-closes-campus-as-omicron-outbreak-spreads\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T00:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:59:28","slug":"cornell-university-closes-campus-as-omicron-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cornell-university-closes-campus-as-omicron-outbreak-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cornell University closes campus as Omicron outbreak spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Cornell University closes campus as Omicron outbreak spreads<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cornell University has closed its main campus amid an outbreak of COVID-19\u2019s Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201csubstantial number\u201d of students infected with the coronavirus at the Ivy League school\u2019s upstate Ithaca campus have the strain, officials said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur surveillance testing has continued to identify the rapid spread of COVID-19 among our student population,\u201d Cornell University President Martha Pollack wrote in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cornell\/status\/1470795949492613128?s=20\">letter to students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The university is now on \u201calert level red\u201d in response to the \u201crapid spread\u201d and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely closed libraries, canceled sporting events and moved all final exams online, Pollack said.<\/p>\n<p>With final exams for the semester already underway, the school\u2019s professors are scrambling to reschedule and digitize tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile faculty and staff case numbers currently remain low, just last evening our COVID-19 testing lab team identified evidence of the highly contagious Omicron variant in a significant number of Monday\u2019s positive student samples,\u201d Pollack said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make clear that our evidence of Omicron is preliminary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Cornell University\" class=\"wp-image-20491579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Cornell University President Martha Pollack said the university is now on \u201calert level red\u201d in a letter to students.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPCR testing has identified its hallmark (the so-called S-gene dropout) in a substantial number of virus samples.\u00a0While we must await confirmatory sequencing information to be sure that the source is Omicron, we are proceeding as if it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The university assured students that the Omicron variant is believed to cause milder cases of COVID-19 but warned it also may likely be more transmissible than earlier variants.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors have been banned from stepping foot on the campus, and all students have been urged to stay within the town and get tested.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Cornell University\" class=\"wp-image-20491583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Cornell has banned visitors from its campus.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The dining hall has shut, and students who live on campus will be offered \u201cgrab-and-go\u201d food.<\/p>\n<p>Infected students have so far not shown symptoms of severe illness, according to Pollack.<\/p>\n<p>The latest outbreak comes two days after Dr. Anthony Fauci said \u201csobering\u201d preliminary studies show the Omicron variant of COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to evade some of the protection provided by vaccines.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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A \u201csubstantial number\u201d of students infected with the coronavirus at the Ivy League school\u2019s upstate Ithaca campus have the strain, officials said Tuesday. \u201cOur surveillance testing has continued to identify the rapid spread&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/cornell-shut-down-covid-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75794,121725,1545,70344,120464],"class_list":["post-381097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cornell-university","tag-12-14-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-omicron-variant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}