It turns out the newest variant doesn’t give a damn about your final exams — at least not if you’re a Cornell student, where 903 students tested positive for COVID between December 7-13. The spookiest part? A significant number of those cases were identified as the Omicron variant.
After it released its COVID results, the Ivy moved to a level red alert and canceled all activities, closed its campus and moved final exams online, per CNN. The outbreak happened despite the fact that a majority of its student body, 97%, are fully vaccinated, according to the university’s website. Some of the students who tested positive had even gotten their booster shots.
