"Harvard University is not ruling out the possibility that it might not open its campus again to students until 2021.
The announcement comes as Harvard researchers have said that social distancing measures may be necessary until 2022.
In a message to students on Monday, Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow wrote, ‘Many of you are concerned about plans for the fall. We are analyzing multiple scenarios, but, in the end, we will be guided by public health considerations—just as we were in deciding on March 10 to send students home and then to implement plans for remote work.’
With Harvard’s summer courses now entirely online, Bacow says the university is now ‘focused on the fall’ and determining the latest possible date by which a decision on fall courses will need to be made even amid a ‘tremendous amount of uncertainty,’ the Harvard Crimson reported." …