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Colleges offering dorms as hospital overflow for virus cases

by AP Education Writer
| March 18, 2020 3:03 PM

BOSTON (AP) — A growing number of U.S. colleges are preparing to turn empty dorms into temporary housing for patients with the coronavirus as the nation’s hospitals brace for a possible surge of cases that could push treatment centers beyond their limits.

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