"Colleges are clearing out student dorms to make room for patients and health-care workers as the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms hospitals. The process has not gone smoothly for students.
When students who’d evacuated their dorm rooms at Virginia Commonwealth University discovered personal belongings they’d left behind were being packed and removed from their rooms to accommodate non-COVID-19 hospital patients, it was through a video on social media.
The video posted on Facebook by a moving company employee on March 25 showed movers going into the rooms and preparing to clear them. The response from surprised students was immediate.
‘I want an answer as to why y’all are literally stealing my stuff right now,’ one student tweeted at the university.
After being told to leave campus and retrieve belongings by March 22 in the wake of the coronavirus public health crisis, the students were angered to learn that strangers would be going through and packing up their stuff." …