After not receiving payments for a year, landlords are beginning to evict for non-payment of rent after a recent Supreme Court ruling. Who's primarily affected by the evictions? What's driving up the cost of living in the area? And what is Durham doing to help its tenants?
At both the national and state level, Duke's government relations team has continued to prioritize the policies that are most impactful for the University and its members.
According to Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, students living on campus or in the Durham area are tested anywhere from once or twice a week to once every other week. In order to determine how many times each student gets tested, Duke uses “modeling data” that was developed by other universities, Cavanaugh wrote in an email.
If the the entry tests Duke performed on the general student body had come back positive for COVID-19 at the same rate as July entry tests for student-athletes, Duke would have had around 340 positive cases as students returned to campus. But only 24 Duke students tested positive for the coronavirus upon entry after Aug. 2.
