It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses
Footage of pandemic’s early days, shot in April 2020, recorded an eerily quiet campus
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It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses
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It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses
Five years ago this week, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed Boston University overnight from a bustling hub to a ghost town. Students returning from spring break were abruptly sent home for the rest of the semester as classes switched to Zoom. Nonessential employees were instructed to work from home until further notice. And a normally bustling Charles River Campus became an eerily silent landscape. This drone video, recorded on April 23, 2020, offers a fascinating record of what BU looked like at the start of the pandemic.
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