{"id":1129384,"date":"2021-12-17T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129384"},"modified":"2021-12-17T19:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:13:47","slug":"cornell-university-admits-virtually-every-case-of-omicron-in-fully-vaccinated-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornell-university-admits-virtually-every-case-of-omicron-in-fully-vaccinated-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell University Admits &#039;Virtually Every Case&#039; of Omicron in Fully Vaccinated Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin 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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\/cornell-clock-tower-AP.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Almost \u201cevery case\u201d of the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus at Cornell University has occurred in fully vaccinated students, some of whom have also received the booster shot, the university revealed this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivy League school has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/585984-ivy-league-schools-covid-19-cases-rise-to-nearly\">experienced<\/a> a spike in cases in the last week, reporting 1,345 cases from December 9-15, according to the university\u2019s coronavirus dashboard, which also revealed that 97 percent of the campus \u2014 students, faculty, and staff \u2014 are vaccinated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;Students attending on-campus for this&nbsp;academic year, 2021-2022, are&nbsp;required to be vaccinated, with exceptions for religious or&nbsp;medical reasons.&nbsp;<\/span><\/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>Cornell President Martha Pollack <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/585984-ivy-league-schools-covid-19-cases-rise-to-nearly\">provided<\/a> an update to students this week, noting a \u201crapid spread\u201d of the virus and the lab identifying \u201cevidence of the highly contagious Omicron variant in a significant number of Monday\u2019s positive student samples.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhile I want to provide reassurance that, to date, we have not seen severe illness in any of our infected students, we do have a role to play in reducing the spread of the disease in the broader community,\u201d Pollack said:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cornell\/status\/1470795949492613128\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cornell\/status\/1470795949492613128<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Joel Malina, vice president for university relations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2021\/12\/14\/1064197606\/cornell-university-omicron-campus-shut-down-covid\">told<\/a> NPR that \u201cvirtually every case of the Omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted Omicron \u201cmight even be less severe\u201d than the Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is some suggestion that it might even be less severe, because when you look at some of the cohorts that are being followed in South Africa, the ratio between the number of infections and the number of hospitalizations seems to be less than with Delta,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/07\/anthony-fauci-omicron-variant-might-even-be-less-severe-than-delta\/\">told<\/a> the AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost \u201cevery case\u201d of the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus at Cornell University has occurred in fully vaccinated students, some of whom have also received the booster shot, the 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