Over the past week, 165 students from Providence College have tested positive for coronavirus
Residents of the leafy Elmhurst neighborhood that surrounds Providence College have learned to become numb to the debauchery they witness most Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights between August and May.

This is a college neighborhood, after all, so you tend to overlook the party fouls. 

But after 165 students from the college tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week, neighbors worry that middle-class Elmhurst has, virtually overnight, become the new epicenter of the highly contagious virus in Rhode Island.

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