30 of 40 Greek houses now under quarantine at Indiana University-Bloomington

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN

INDIANAPOLIS – Seven more Greek houses at Indiana University-Bloomington are being directed to quarantine because of COVID-19, bringing the total up to 30 as of Wednesday evening.

There are 2,600 students in 42 communal living houses at IU, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said. The houses include 40 fraternity and sorority houses and the Evans Scholars and Christian Student Fellowship houses.

IU Bloomington reported an 8.1% positivity rate among students living in fraternity and sorority housing during its mitigation testing, according to a Monday update to its testing dashboard. Residence halls had a 1.63% positivity rate.

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Last week, eight houses were on the list of quarantined houses on the IU Division of Student Affairs' website. Fourteen houses were quarantined as of Monday morning.

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[tblue37]

1. Opening schools and universities in the middle of a pandemic is a total clustertrump. nt

[groundloop]

2. I have to wonder how well those quarantine orders are followed.

[roamer65]

3. I figured frats would be the problem children.

They never seem to able to stick to the rules...or law.

[jmbar2]

4. I never liked those overprivileged, entitled little schmucks

They should lock 'em up before they kill everyone else.

[Submariner]

5. Mommy just untied the apron strings at high school graduation

so the young dumb fledglings are spreading their wings by partying hard and spreading disease.

[Blues Heron]

6. they're learning about biology and exponential growth in real time