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Opposite Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York University students face an uncertain future: they may not have a place to live. 

In the middle of an epidemic

This disease caused by the new coronavirus, in New York City alone, New York University withdrew college students from their dormitories.

On Monday, the school sent an email to approximately 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students in NYU dormitories, stating that they must be evacuated "within 48 hours if possible" by March 22.

In the Guardian.  

, New York University said it will close its student dormitories on March 22, except for law and medical students and graduate students studying biomedicine at New York University Lange School of Health.

Now, as universities scramble to create more space for sick New Yorkers, thousands of college students are in trouble. In the State University of New York school, similar measures can be taken to convert dormitories into hospital beds.

Monday. Country has

Expected number of hospital beds for COVID-19 cases.

Officials have not yet asked New York University to make room for temporary medical units.

. "But we hope to be able to help when needed."

The university told students in an email: "There are ample indications that as part of the emergency plan, New York State is using college dormitories as a hospital overflow bed setting."

On Twitter, students expressed their concerns about where to go and stated that given the large number of international students being directed to take home, it is not clear how the university will host online courses.

New York University said that only "a few students who have applied for and received exemptions" may stay in the dorms.

Marc Wais, vice president of student affairs, told the NYU community

, The school needs to help the authorities stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Wise wrote: "New York City has an institutional responsibility. If things happen in the city, it will help." For those who are still here (or on a day trip) and have the ability to clean up their rooms, your willingness to do so may It is an important contribution to health measures that may be taken in the future. "

It is not clear how the order will affect graduate students who live off campus but receive university rent subsidies from New York State

From this week. New York University did not immediately respond to insider's request for comment.