UC-San Diego Expects (Hopes for?) Normality to Return by Fall

From the San Diego Union-Tribune: UC San Diego will resume putting up to three students in some dorm rooms this fall to deal with a housing shortage that left nearly 3,200 students on waiting lists last summer. The shortage largely arose because the school took 2,000 beds out of service to promote social distancing during the height of the pandemic...

Under a new plan, the university will add 700 undergraduate beds for the fall quarter. UCSD is moving ahead with the plan because the COVID-19 infection rate among students is falling. It stood at 6.91 percent on Tuesday. The figure was 9.71 percent on January 6. Campus modelers expect the number to keep falling...

Full story at:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2022-01-19/uc-san-diego-3students-dorm-rooms.