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SBU Student, Home From Study Abroad, Talks Self-Quarantine

Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A Stony Brook University student is in self-quarantine after returning from a semester abroad in Italy.  

Stony Brook’s study abroad program in Italy moved classes online after the country went into lockdown.

Gabriella Pardo returned to Long Island after the university gave her the option to stay or leave.

“Currently I am in self-quarantine now in my home. It’s not that bad because basically my house is set up that I have kind of like my own apartment downstairs so everything works out well.”

She attended classes in Florence where the threat of the virus was not as serious. Pardo says she left as a precaution.

“I think it’s just better to be safe than sorry. I haven’t had any symptoms or anything. Personally I don’t think I’m going to have any symptoms, because in Florence or even the Tuscany region in general where I was, the cases were very low there. So that made me feel a lot better about the whole situation.”

The duration of her quarantine at home is 14 days. Soon all of her classmates will be finishing the semester online. The CUNY and SUNY public university systems were ordered to go online starting March 19.

Disclosure: WSHU’s Long Island News Bureau is on the campus of Stony Brook University.

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