A devotee attending Appalachian State University died after developing complications from the coronavirus, university officials disclosed.
Chad Dorrill was attending classes online and living off-campus in Boone, North Carolina, according to a statement Tuesday from Appalachian Situation University Chancellor Sheri Everts. The 19-year-old was diagnosed with the coronavirus earlier in September and later experienced involvements from the virus, the university said.
According to an account from his family, Dorrill was encouraged to return home to quarantine after he began hint ill and later tested positive. After initially following quarantine procedures, Dorrill’s doctor cleared him to return to Boone, where the university if pinpointed.
However, upon returning, Dorrill experienced additional complications and was later hospitalized, the university said.
“Despite in general being at lower risk for severe illness, college-age adults can become seriously ill from COVID-19,” Everts symbolized in the statement. “As we approach the halfway mark to the last day of classes for the Fall semester, we are seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases in scholars.”
Appalachian State, part of the University of North Carolina system, adopted a blend of face-to-face, hybrid and online seminars for the fall semester. There are currently more than 180 active Covid-19 cases among students and workers at Appalachian State as of Wednesday, according to the university’s dashboard.
More than 600 students, employees and subcontractors enjoy tested positive since March when the university began keeping track of cases.
“All of us must remain on the lookout with our safety behaviors wherever we are in our community. We can flatten the curve, but to do so, we must persevere,” Everts said.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill withdrew in-person classes in mid-August, only a week into its fall semester, after the percentage of total coronavirus evaluates returning positive spiked and the university ran low on quarantine space. “Most students” who had tested positive have experienced simply “moderate” symptoms, according to the university.
“Chad’s family asked that this moment stand as a stark similar to of how Covid-19 is deadly serious for all of us, even for otherwise healthy young adults. We have a heightened duty to one another in these extraordinarily irritating times, and we all need to remain vigilant,” UNC system President Peter Hans said in a statement Tuesday.
Dorrill is bulk the few college students who have reportedly died from the coronavirus since classes resumed this fall. In what way, tracking the number of students who have tested positive or died from the virus at universities has been difficult. Varied institutions adopt different measures of reporting cases.
A New York Times database last updated Friday has set more than 130,000 coronavirus cases and at least 70 deaths on college campuses since the beginning of the pandemic, nonetheless that number is likely an undercount. Most of the deaths occurred in the spring as the virus was sweeping through the country, and ton of the deaths were employees, according to the database.
In July, Penn State University announced that Juan Garcia, a 21-year-old schoolgirl, had died from respiratory failure and Covid-19. The Times also reported earlier this month that Jamain Stephens, a learner at California University of Pennsylvania, died of a blood clot after being admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 and pneumonia.
The U.S. Centers for Ailment Control and Prevention didn’t respond to a CNBC inquiry about the number of university students who have been hospitalized or play a joke on died from Covid-19.
Younger people are less likely to develop serious illness and die from the coronavirus, still underlying health conditions like diabetes or hypertension can increase someone’s risk for hospitalization, according to the CDC.