BU announced Wednesday in-person classes will resume as planned on January 20, but with a number of adjustments to address the surging Omicron variant.
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One year ago, Boston University was transformed, seemingly overnight, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were sent home to finish the spring semester remotely, nonessential staff told to work from home, and a bustling campus suddenly eerily quiet.
In the intervening months, the University has managed to return to
some semblance of normalcy, thanks to an aggressive testing and contact tracing program. But it’s been a year unlike any other marked by social distancing, masks, a hybrid learning system, and now, the advent of vaccines.
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WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio news station, is ramping up its coverage of COVID-19 and the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, with more opportunities to answer questions from readers and listeners, special newsletters, and a look ahead to what post-pandemic life might look like. (Sign up for the newsletters here.)
The station (Boston University owns WBUR’s broadcast license) has already launched a weekly email written by station digital producer Roberto Scalese and including aggregated stories from WBUR, NPR, and other media local and national. In each email,
CommonHealth reporters also answer questions about vaccines (see the archive of all their responses here).
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On Friday, a gray, wintry day, Anne Patey, Student Health Services (SHS) director of nursing, checked in Emily Gibb at her table in the FitRec basketball gym that is now BU’s COVID-19 vaccination center. Patey opened up a glass vial and drew the first dose of the COVID vaccine.
Gibb (Sargent’10), an athletic trainer with SHS, rolled up the sleeve of her gray sweatshirt and held out her left arm. Patey swabbed the area. “You’re going to feel a little stick now,” she said. It was 10:05 am. And just like that, Gibb became the first person to receive one of the first 500 doses of the Moderna vaccine provided to BU.