Spring Break & Coronavirus

People will be doing a lot of traveling in the coming weeks

Dropped out of the coronavirus next week is spring break for students at many schools á including waldorf university.

Many will be flying or driving back home or maybe enjoying a fun destination.

But the university is warning students to be on guardcoronavirus.

Kimts nick kruszalnicki is live in mason city with the details.

Nick?

George and katie á i spent the afternoon at waldorf university talking with two students there who will be spending spring break back home.

Both tell me they are ready to keep themselves safe from whatever germs might come their way.xxx "the airplane doesn't scare me it's the airport in general, because there's so many people coming in from everywhere.

That's what scares me is the airport."

Kaitlin rodriguez will be heading back home to chicago next week, flying into oáhare.

"everybody that is effected is within my county so i'm just kind of like should i be afraid.

I don't know?

Because it's like there's not a lot of reports that are stabilized out there."

She knows about the five cases of coronavirus in cook county and is a little concerned about it.

While visiting her family, she will be working at a theater company downtown, in close proximity with lots of people.

"hand sanitizer all around, especially with the theater, you have to be like healthy and what not, so hand sanitizer... i have a lot everywhere in my house, in my room, and my backpack.

Everywhere."

Sierra kearns won't be flying home á but instead driving back to elk river, minnesota, where she will work as a lifeguard at the ymca.

She says the hot indoor pool could be a perfect breeding ground for disease.

"a lot of the time people will come swimming at the 'y' all the time, whether they're sick or not.

They'll bring their sick kids just to get them exercise."

While kearns says she's not a germáoáphobe, she is planning on adding something extra to her usual tools of the trade.

"i'm not one that's normally concerned about getting sick or anything like that but definitely this time.

Lifeguards have a fanny pack that has their breathing both students told me the school's nurse has been emailing students with the facts of the coronavirus and they appreciate the efforts to keep them informed about the situation.

Live in mason city, nick kruszalnicki, kimt news 3./// we're now hearing of a 12th person in the united states who has died from coronavirus.

Keep in mind, that is a far smaller number than the over 18á thousand people who have died from influenza this season./// authorities need your