U. Maryland drops COVID policy that booted students from campus

After a federal oversight committee launched an investigation, the University of Maryland put an end to what some lawmakers and health scholars contended was a stringent and outdated COVID quarantine policy.

The university originally mandated that students who contract the coronavirus leave campus immediately and isolate either at an off-campus hotel or by going home, both seemingly at the students’ own expense.

Under the recently revised policy, students who test positive for COVID are allowed to quarantine in their dorms.