“I am not really that worried about it because it isn’t air born its through bodily fluids, so it would be easier to contain in a sense. I do think that it is scary that symptoms don’t show up for up to eight weeks, and the fact that they let them off the ship,” senior Tariq Lavin

“ I’m scared that it is going to come over here and it is going to turn into a second COVID-19-like pandemic, and we are going to get locked in our houses for weeks again,” senior Derik Tamayo

“Hantavirus is usually transmitted from rats to humans, but the strain that was mutated and spread was the Andes virus that can be spread from human to human, and with the fatality rate being 40-50, it’s more likely to spread more rapidly,” sophomore Brycen Perry