As college students leave on-campus housing after the COVID-19 outbreak forced schools to close, some universities are planning to use the freed-up space to help local hospitals and health care systems at risk of being overwhelmed.
“The quickly expanding COVID-19 outbreak in the United States is soon expected to outstrip the capacity of our hospitals, as in Italy, where they have resorted to makeshift tents, hallways, and parking lots,” Anthony Monaco, president of Tufts University in Massachusetts, wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed. Tufts ordered its students to vacate shortly after a student tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus.
