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College towns weigh benefits of students' return, virus risk

College towns weigh benefits of students' return with virus risks

08/11/2020

PBS News Hour

College towns weigh benefits of students' return, virus risk

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College towns weigh benefits of students' return with virus risks

As the new academic year gets underway, college students, parents, administrators and faculty are deliberating over whether it will be safe to hold in-person classes and resume dorm life. And residents of the surrounding towns and cities worry about the risk that returning students could bring coronavirus back to campus with them. John Yang reports on one Massachusetts town's dilemma.

08/11/2020

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