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Students, faculty and staff members, and alumni of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, were horrified and outraged at the sight of hundreds of students crowding onto a popular street full of bars and restaurants over the weekend to celebrate the men’s basketball team’s win over Duke University. The possibility of spreading the coronavirus and undermining the university’s attempt to safely begin in-person classes this Monday seemed lost on the jubilant crowd of revelers.
In a typical year, the crowd would be expected; it’s a tradition for Tar Heel fans to rush nearby Franklin Street after beating the rival Blue Devils, a cutthroat basketball foe based 20 minutes away in Durham, N.C. But after Chapel Hill’s widely publicized failed attempt to hold an in-person semester six months ago due to COVID-19 spread, people affiliated with the campus were quick to label the crowd of students “embarrassing” and “disgraceful.”
Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can teach remotely until Feb. 17 in light of the crowded and largely maskless celebration of the
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Montgomery: The state has expanded who is eligible to receive immunizations against COVID-19, but health officials caution there’s still not enough vaccine for everyone who qualifies for a shot. As of Monday, everyone 65 and older, educators, grocery store workers, some manufacturing workers, public transit workers, agriculture employees, state legislators and constitutional officers is eligible to get vaccinated. Previously only health care workers, first responders, nursing home residents, and people 75 and older were eligible. “If you are eligible for a vaccine, then we will get you one if want to take it. But it is not going to happen immediately for everyone,” Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, told reporters Friday. Harris said an estimated 1.5 million people would be eligible for vaccines, but the state has b
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