Winona Post: Colleges credit vaccines, students for COVID drop

By Alexandra Retter, November 3, 2021

COVID-19 case rates are down substantially at local colleges this year when compared with fall 2020 levels. Higher education leaders said the pandemic situation has improved on campus and cited vaccination as a key factor. 

However, they also said they will continue monitoring case rates and keep mitigation strategies in place to try to avoid any winter spike.

 ... "We certainly had cases continuing and popping up, but this year, we have all of our on-campus classes and all of our employees back full-time on campus, and so far, so good," Minnesota State College Southeast (MSC Southeast) Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Josiah Litant said. 

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