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College students quarantine as omicron cases keep climbing

If omicron is inevitable, what does that mean for college's spring semester?

Aired 12/16/2021

NJ Spotlight News

College students quarantine as omicron cases keep climbing

Clip: 12/16/2021 | 4m 55sVideo has Closed Captions

If omicron is inevitable, what does that mean for college's spring semester?

"It’s been a wild couple days, filled with a lot of tests of various kinds — finals and Covid." Isabel Kossoy spoke from her bedroom in Fair Lawn, where she’s quarantined after returning home from Cornell University, which declared a COVID-19 Code Red after more than 900 students there tested positive over the past week.

Aired 12/16/2021

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