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Colleges go back to drawing board — again — to fight COVID

Many colleges are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life.

Facing rising infections and a , colleges across the U.S. have once again been thwarted in seeking a move to normalcy and are starting to require booster shots, extend mask mandates, limit social gatherings and, in some cases, revert to online classes.The threat of the omicron variant that were hoping to relax safety measures this spring. Now, many are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life. After a fall with few coronavirus cases, officials at Syracuse University were "feeling pretty good" about the spring term, said Kent Syverud, the upstate New York school's chancellor."But omicron

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