It's nice to see Fake News get called out Immediately. Shut them down with TRUTH.
Liberty University welcomed coronavirus to campus last week, the New York Times reported. That's 'false,' university says.
Less than a week after welcoming back nearly 2,000 students amid the nation’s coronavirus outbreak, Liberty University again finds itself in the middle of a controversy.
After the New York Times reported Sunday that multiple Liberty students had gotten sick after returning to campus, the Virginia university pushed back, labeling the report as "false."
In an email to USA TODAY, Scott Lamb, the school's senior vice president of communications, said there have been “no cases of any on-campus student testing positive for coronavirus,” adding that four students were told to self-isolate not because they had symptoms but because they had just returned from New York.
Additionally, Lamb said, one online student, who does not live on campus, “who never left Lynchburg has tested positive from local contacts in the community.”
“Contrary to the Times’ reporting, Liberty is not aware of any students in its residence halls testing positive for COVID-19 or, in fact, being tested at all, much less any residence hall students having sufficient symptoms of COVID-19 prompting the need to get tested based on current CDC guidelines,” Liberty said in a statement.
Liberty president Jerry Falwell, Jr., was more blunt on Twitter: "Prime example of why you never believe anything @nytimes says about @LibertyU. Complete liars.”
In its statement about The Times story, Liberty also wrote, "The University promptly provided the reporter detailed numbers on the student cases and requested corrections. No correction has been forthcoming so this statement is being issued."
Read more here https://www.yahoo.com/news/liberty-university-welcomed-coronavirus-campus-011956108.html