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David Wohl<\/strong><\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases talked to WRAL News<\/a> <\/strong>abut the recent coronavirus outbreak that prompted the university to move classes online.<\/p>\n

“I think this was a valiant attempt at seeing whether or not we can get this to happen,” Wohl said. “To be clear though, it looked like the faculty, students and staff were doing a really good job. I think it’s the off campus activities, as many warned, is where we really saw problems.”<\/p>\n

He also added that looking ahead, it will be important to see what happens in the community, and although it was a controversial decision to make, whether or not to bring students back to campus, it wasn’t unreasonable because the pandemic may go on for a year or two years.<\/p>\n

“In the long run, we may find ourselves discussing this again, because the alternative isn’t so good.”<\/p>\n

Find the WRAL interview here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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