At UMass Amherst, students exposed to COVID-19 face stark quarantine options
Some sent to campus hotel, others to an aging apartment building
By Matt Berg Globe Correspondent,Updated February 6, 2021, 6:14 p.m.
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UMass Amherst students who have been possibly exposed to COVID-19 are housed either in a hotel on campus or a sparse empty apartment complex. (Videos courtesy of Camrie Baams and Grace Lucey)
After she was exposed to COVID-19, UMass Amherst student Steph Miley thought she was going to spend her entire quarantine â nearly two weeks â
in the hotel on campus. Like other quarantining students, she was supposed to have the comfort of two large beds, a television mounted to the wall, a pristine personal bathroom, and fresh bedding and towels.