What It’s Like to Be Quarantined on a College Campus
A UCLA student talks about measles exposure at his school, his time in isolation from other students, and making a TikTok video to pass the time.
Duoduo “Danny” Ying didn’t pay much attention to the UCLA chancellor’s school-wide memo that arrived in his email inbox last Wednesday. The note, also published on the school’s website, simply seemed to reiterate what he already knew: An unnamed student at the University of California at Los Angeles “had contracted the measles,” the chancellor wrote. Los Angeles County is one of several regions across the United States currently experiencing an outbreak of measles. The number of cases in the country is the highest it’s been since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated in the United States.
The unnamed UCLA student had, on three separate days a few weeks prior, attended classes while
