Lee University Covid cases

Lee University is dealing with Covid-19 exposures in a dorm.

We talk to the President and students about how they are coping.

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Lee university is dealing with covid exposures on their campus this week.

News 12's winston reed had the chance to speak with the president of the university and also captured the perspective of everyday students.

After lee university discovered positve cases of coronavirus on campus - particularly in medlin hall- university president mark walker released this video to students and faculty.

"out of 122 residents of medline hall, there are only four positive cases as of last night and nine that have been quarantinedue to clos contact.

These are very small percentages."

President walker credits those small percentages on the institution's trust in their faith as well as their blueprint plan for reopening and responding to covid.

"we put together a covid 19 task force all the way back up to march which included faculty, key people from every sector of the university coming together regular pulling as much information as possible to say 'okay this is what we have to do.'" standup: "news 12 had a chance to speak with students and they tell us about their on cmapus experience."

"for the most part everybody wears their mask all the time and you don't really see anybody like not following the rules.

So i think they've been handling it pretty well."

Student "i feel semi-comfortable.

Lee isn't requiring people to wear mask while sitting down in class.

So that's a little uncomfortable.

I keep my mask on and some peope do but most people don't."

"the corona thing definitely effects me because i'm immuno compromised but i think for my learning style i'm defintely better in person."

"we can only have a certain amount of people in the room at one time.

Classes are very small and then you also have people on zoom at the same time so the teachers try to juggle us and online."

"all of our classes the students have assigned seating.

So if a student tests positive, we know exactly where they were seated and we know exactly who was around them.

Our classrooms are set up in such a way thet we have them social distanced so we shouldn't a contract tracing issue."

President walker says all four floors of medlin hall were disenfected and deep cleaned.

There are currently 14 positve cases on campus out of 34 hundred plus students and employees.

Reporting in cleveland, winston reed, news