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AT LEAST ONE STUDENT INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS. BRIAN: IT STARTED WITH A CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DC. I TALKED TO ONE OF THE STUDENTS BY PHONE AND SHE SAID BY THE TIME THEY FOUND OUT THEY COULD HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE CORONAVIRUS, THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN IN CONTACT WITH COUNTLESS PEOPLE. TIME HAS TAKEN ON A NEW DIMENSION FOR STUDENTS COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS THEY HAVE LEFT IN QUARANTINE. THIS STUDENT DID NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED AND WAS TOLD NOT TO LEAVE HER APARTMENT. >> IT STILL DOESN’T FEEL LIKE IT IS A REAL THING. BRIAN: SHE WAS WITH A GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO WENT TO A CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DC, BUT THEY GOT BACK ARCHED 29TH AND WERE ONLY TOLD MARCH 10 THAT THEY NEEDED TO SELF QUARANTINE. A LETTER SAYS THEY MAY HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH SOMEONE CAN EARN TO HAVE THE CORONAVIRUS. BUT YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN CONTACT WITH HOW MANY PEOPL SINCE THE CONFERENCE. >> EXACTLY. BRIAN: SHE DOES NOT KNOW IF ANYBODY HAS SHOWN SIGNS OF SICKNESS AND SHE THINKS IT IS UNLIKELY THAT ANYONE WOULD HAVE IT. >> ON THE OFF CHAN THAT SOMEONE DID, IT IS ALREADY ALL OVER CAMPUS. BRIA ALL ANYONE CAN DO IS WATCH THE CLOCK AND WAIT. THE STUDENT TELLS US THERE WERE 16 AND HER GROUP MIAMI UNIVERSITY RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING THE BUTLER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALT REQUESTED THAT ALL ATTENDEES REMAIN HOME. MIAMI HAS GONE TO REMOTE LEARNING BUT

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Some Miami University students are being self-quarantined after being told they may have come in contact with a confirmed case of the coronavirus.The students received an email from the Butler County Health Department notifying them that they have been in potential contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the past 14 days.“I think it’s going to take a minute to sink in that I really have to stay here, and I’m really not allowed to leave," one of the self-quarantined students told WLWT News 5's Brian Hamrick by phone.The student said they returned from a conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 29. They were told March 10 that they may have come in contact with someone who had the coronavirus at the conference.She said the notification came way too late to make much of a difference in stopping the spread."I don’t think we have it, but on the off chance that anyone did, it’s already all over campus because we would have given it to our houses and they would have given it to all their classes and so on and so forth," the student said.The student said she doesn't know of any students showing any signs of sickness.The student said there were 16 in her group that attended the conference but no official number has been released.Some students were moved to an apartment style dorm. The students are sharing the dorms but have their own rooms.Miami University released a statement saying: "Like other universities in the state, some Miami University community members attended a conference where an attendee, who is not from Miami University, later tested positive for COVID-19. Out of an abundance of caution, the Butler County Department of Health requested the attendees to stay home. None of them are under investigation or being tested for the virus. Because Miami has gone to remote learning, some of them have opted to go home."The students received a letter from the Butler County Health Department that advised students to adhere to the following:Stay in your homeAvoid interactions with people in your house hold as much as possibleStay at least 6 feet distance between members of your household should you have to interact within the same environment. Avoid this as much as possible.You must have access to your own bathroom and sleeping area if possibleShould your condition worsen and you feel the need to seek medical care, you need to contact the Butler County Health DistrictIf it is after hours, call the 24/7 Infectious Disease hotlineDo not seek medical care before contacting your healthcare provider so they may take proper precautionsShould you require medical transport to a hospital you are to inform dispatch that you are under self-isolation for the novel coronavirus so that they make the proper precautions. If able, please ask the hospital to inform Public Health.You are to record your temperatures and the times that you took them and any symptom that you notice twice a dayShould you develop an objective fever (>100.5), a subjective fever (<100.5, but you feel feverish), or the symptoms coughing and shortness of breath, you will contact the Butler County General Health DistrictYou will be contacted by the Butler County General Health District every day to check your temperatures and symptoms