Young people have less COVID-19 risk, but in college towns, deaths rose fast
By Danielle Ivory, Robert Gebeloff and Sarah Mervosh New York Times,Updated December 12, 2020, 1:40 p.m.
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Public benches bore a social distancing message outside the main library at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., in September.Sylvia Jarrus/NYT
When college students returned to campuses around the country this fall, spurring a spike in new coronavirus infections nationwide, people like Phyllis Baukol seemed at little risk.
A classical pianist who, at 94, was ill with Alzheimerâs, she lived tucked away in a nursing home in Grand Forks, North Dakota, far from the classrooms, bars and fraternity houses frequented by students at the University of North Dakota.