After the summer, Liliana Pokropski was relieved to be back on Benedictine College’s bucolic campus from her home in Wilmington, Del.
While coronavirus numbers were high on the East Coast, none of the more than 2,000 students at the college in Atchison, Kan., were displaying symptoms. But when the college tested all of the students in late August, they turned up 66 positive cases.
“Unfortunately, I was a part of the outbreak,” Pokropski, who is president of the student body, chuckled through a mask decorated with the school tartan. “I was quarantined along with a huge portion of the students, and it was very shocking.”
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