Post by aggierattler on Sept 25, 2020 19:03:16 GMT -5
As Crimson Tide Rolls, So Does COVID-19 at the University of Alabama
>The football team, along with the rest of the SEC, is forging ahead with a season while other students on campus battle COVID-19.
>More than 2,000 university members have fallen ill since the school brought students back to campus in August.
BY AMANDA CHRISTOVICH
FRONT OFFICE SPORTS
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
While the Alabama Crimson Tide football team was gearing up for the 2020 season in late August, Tzali Nislick, a sophomore at the University of Alabama, was gearing up for quarantine. He’d been exposed to a friend who had tested positive, and soon after lost his sense of taste and smell, and started to feel sick.
So Nislick, who lived in a fraternity house that had been placed on lockdown, packed a bag and was taken to the “Highlands” — dorms that the university had cleared for students with COVID-19 to quarantine. Nislick was never administered a test by the university, he said, given that his exposure and symptoms both suggested he had the virus.
He quarantined with his friend who had tested positive for COVID-19, as well as another student he didn’t know who the university placed in his dorm halfway through his quarantine. To occupy himself, Nislick brought his PlayStation and a small TV. There was university furniture and a mattress, but he had to bring all of his own sheets, pillows and blankets — as well as any medical supplies. The university delivered three meals worth of food every evening, but Nislick ate food delivered from his fraternity instead. He said that the university had stationed campus police outside the building to keep anyone from leaving...
LINK for the entire article: frontofficesports.com/alabama-football-campus-quarantine/
>The football team, along with the rest of the SEC, is forging ahead with a season while other students on campus battle COVID-19.
>More than 2,000 university members have fallen ill since the school brought students back to campus in August.
BY AMANDA CHRISTOVICH
FRONT OFFICE SPORTS
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
While the Alabama Crimson Tide football team was gearing up for the 2020 season in late August, Tzali Nislick, a sophomore at the University of Alabama, was gearing up for quarantine. He’d been exposed to a friend who had tested positive, and soon after lost his sense of taste and smell, and started to feel sick.
So Nislick, who lived in a fraternity house that had been placed on lockdown, packed a bag and was taken to the “Highlands” — dorms that the university had cleared for students with COVID-19 to quarantine. Nislick was never administered a test by the university, he said, given that his exposure and symptoms both suggested he had the virus.
He quarantined with his friend who had tested positive for COVID-19, as well as another student he didn’t know who the university placed in his dorm halfway through his quarantine. To occupy himself, Nislick brought his PlayStation and a small TV. There was university furniture and a mattress, but he had to bring all of his own sheets, pillows and blankets — as well as any medical supplies. The university delivered three meals worth of food every evening, but Nislick ate food delivered from his fraternity instead. He said that the university had stationed campus police outside the building to keep anyone from leaving...
LINK for the entire article: frontofficesports.com/alabama-football-campus-quarantine/