{"id":1111841,"date":"2021-12-12T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111841"},"modified":"2021-12-12T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:43:33","slug":"highly-vaccinated-vermont-college-goes-back-to-remote-learning-due-to-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/highly-vaccinated-vermont-college-goes-back-to-remote-learning-due-to-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly Vaccinated Vermont College Goes Back to Remote Learning Due to New Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhighly-vaccinated-vermont-college-goes-back-to-remote-learning-due-to-new-cases%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/241463894_10159454583997629_3987123949749415109_n-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Despite a vaccination rate of 99 percent, a Vermont liberal arts college has reverted back to remote learning due to 50 cases of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Middlebury College in Vermont announced that final exams will be administered remotely after 49 students and 1 employee tested positive for the coronavirus despite an extraordinarily high vaccination rate of 99 percent out of a population of&nbsp;2,858 students, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/vermont-middlebury-college-remote-learning-covid-19\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Students were encouraged to \u201cleave campus and travel to their break destination early.\u201d Students who remained on campus were required to follow strict mitigation measures:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While many of the new cases we have identified appear to be connected, occurring in clusters among people who socialize together, an increase in the prevalence of&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19 increases the likelihood of broader community transmission. Given the timing of this increase, coinciding with the end of the fall semester and imminent student departures,&nbsp;<em>we have decided to move immediately to remote instruction and postpone in-person events.<\/em>&nbsp;This includes classes that meet on Friday, December 10, final exams, and all formal and informal events, including athletics competitions and performing&nbsp;arts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With more than 99 percent of students fully vaccinated and many already receiving booster doses, the risk of adverse health outcomes from the Delta variant is low. Rising student cases that require isolation, ongoing transmission, and the few days remaining in the semester warrant the change to remote&nbsp;instruction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.562874251497\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COVID-19 on Campus and Move to Remote Instruction<\/p>\n<p>Students able to leave campus and travel to their break destination early should do so. Students who must remain on campus for travel reasons may stay and will need to follow the mitigation measures below. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJLYu6uLbt\">https:\/\/t.co\/JJLYu6uLbt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Middlebury College (@Middlebury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Middlebury\/status\/1469294660866695176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asymptomatic students will not be required to wait on campus for their test results and will be allowed to go home until they are emailed their test results. Symptomatic students must stay on campus until they produce a negative test. A strict mask mandate policy will be enforced on campus while only grab-and-go meals will be permitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRising student cases that require isolation, ongoing transmission and the few days remaining in the semester warrant the change to remote&nbsp;instruction,\u201d school officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/ljFVa\/https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/education\/publication\/the-state-of-the-global-education-crisis-a-path-to-recovery?cq_ck=1638565414093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank&nbsp;<\/a>showed that students suffered tremendously due to remote learning during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fear that in 15 years we\u2019re going to write a lot of academic papers to identify and understand the negative premium or discount in terms of welfare, productivity and income just for belonging to the generation between 5 and 18 in 2021,\u201d Jaime Saavedra, World Bank Global Director for Education, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/12\/09\/global-remote-learning-loss\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a vaccination rate of 99 percent, a Vermont liberal arts college has reverted back to remote learning due to 50 cases of coronavirus. 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