In reply to: ND suspending Rome program; all students returning to US. posted by G.K.Chesterton
It would have been difficult to make it any more quickly. This thing blew up here this week. It didn't occur to me when we left on Monday to ski for three days in Austria that I would spend this weekend planning online instruction for next week just in case. No decision has been made on that yet.
Meanwhile, we've had tens of thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths here due to influenza--it has been a nasty year for it.
Evacuations from programs in Florence (which is closer to Lombardy than Rome) started on Tuesday. There weren't any cases reported in Italy two weeks ago, outside of two Chinese tourists in Rome (a city of 3 million people). Let's not blow this out of proportion.