US colleges that welcomed students back likely led to a surge in Covid cases

The CDC has said that young adults saw a 55% increase nationally in coronavirus cases in August

From late July through September, students from more than 2,400 colleges and universities went back to campus to participate in what has ultimately become an American experiment in how institutions of higher education can operate during a pandemic.

It has been a few weeks since the most dramatic effects of college reopening have been seen, and in the time since, research has started to show that inviting students back to college likely led to a rise in Covid-19 cases in the US.