Ryan Faircloth writes in the Star Tribune : “ Minnesota colleges are reporting large spikes in COVID-19 cases on their campuses at the start of the spring semester , indicating the omicron variant is surging through their highly vaccinated communities in a way previous strains of the virus did not. Nearly 1 in 4 University of Minnesota students who tested for COVID-19 at the Twin Cities campus’ clinic from Jan. 6-13 were positive, according to data published Friday showing 253 positive student and employee cases out of 1,093 tests taken. … Among Minnesota’s private colleges, St. Olaf and Carleton, […]
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