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Colleges to ramp up coronavirus testing before Thanksgiving

The issue is especially important for schools serving a national market, such as the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The public university, in a state hard hit this fall by the virus, has about 32,000 undergraduates. University officials say they will expand testing hours on the weekend before Thanksgiving to ensure that any student who wants a viral test before leaving Madison can get one. Those who test positive and live in campus housing would be offered a room to live in isolation temporarily.