{"id":4723,"date":"2023-10-03T15:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:50:24","slug":"troy-students-react-to-rise-in-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/03\/troy-students-react-to-rise-in-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY students react to rise in COVID cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 According to the Centers for Disease C and Prevention (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC<\/a>) there has been a rise in COVID cases all across the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How is this going to affect Troy University students? Do students think COVID will reappear on campus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Definitely,&#8221; said senior Braden Chalker. &#8220;Anywhere that you have a lot of people going together, it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s like a few hundred or tens of thousands, there\u2019s always a chance of some kind of sickness or anything like that. Especially because we\u2019re an international school.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some students have already seen COVID&#8217;s reappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I know at least two or three people who have already contracted COVID this semester,&#8221; senior Collis Adcock said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are students scared of COVID&#8217;s return?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Not really because it\u2019s already been going around.So, I mean if I get sick, I get to miss class,&#8221; freshman Hannah Emmerson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what do professionals have to say about the situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re actually not seeing as much COVID in the last two weeks as we\u2019ve seen at the beginning of school,&#8221; said Jackie Chirico of the Troy University Health Center. &#8220;It&#8217;s dropped off a little bit, but I mean, it\u2019s still around.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chirico suggests washing your hands frequently and avoiding group gatherings if you\u2019re feeling under the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about TROY&#8217;s Health Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/health-center\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>. To learn more about COVID-19, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 According to the Centers for Disease C and Prevention (CDC) there has been a rise in COVID cases all across the nation. <\/p>\n<p>How is this going to affect Troy University students? Do students think COVID will reappear on campus?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely,&#8221; said senior Braden Chalker. &#8220;Anywhere that you have a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/03\/troy-students-react-to-rise-in-covid-cases\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[237,37],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}