West Virginia University becomes the latest school to backtrack on in-person classes after a spike i [View all]

(CNN)After a week and a half of in-person classes, West Virginia University announced Monday it was moving undergraduate classes online after seeing a spike in Covid-19 cases and the occurrence of several parties this weekend at the school.

The Morgantown campus canceled all in-person classes Monday and will host online classes only starting Wednesday through September 25, the school said in a statement. Undergraduate classes started on August 26.

The school said the shift to online classes is a result of the increase in positive cases on the Morgantown campus, as well as reports of parties held over the holiday weekend.

"This pause in face-to-face undergraduate instruction will give us time to monitor the steadily climbing cases of COVID-19," Dr. Jeffrey Coben, associate vice president of health affairs and dean of the School of Public Health, said. "There is increasing evidence that crowded indoor gatherings, such as those that occurred over the weekend, can serve as super-spreader events."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/west-virginia-university-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

Just like clockwork. Open up in-person classes, students go to parties and then attend those classes - spreading COVID to classmates and university staff. This is not hard to predict.