6 MORE SUNY
STUDENTS ILL
Plus, 1 More Case Surfaces
In High-School Infestation
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – COVID-19 has come home to the SUNY Oneonta campus.
Six more SUNY Oneonta students tested positive overnight for COVID-19 and – for the first time – four of them are living on-campus, Heidi Bond, county public health director, said this afternoon.
In a second gathering first reported yesterday – of high school students – a fifth attendees, an Oneonta teen, has tested positive as well, Bond said. The other four were from Cooperstown.
Of the total 13 SUNY cases reported since Tuesday, nine lived off-campus, all of them until today, Bond said.
“For the most part, these cases originated from a house party,” she continued. “The others were linked to a person who didn’t attend, but their roommate did and tested positive. It’s spreading.”
In all, there are now 21 active cases in the county, up from four last week.
“You never know if someone is positive,” Bond warned. “We have to all remember that things aren’t going back to normal. We have to limit social activities.”
I would hope that if these gatherings are against current policy with the college that these students who disregard are dealt with harshly as they are not only impacting themselves they are impacting the ability of all schools in the area to open.