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Had COVID? You might want to clean your freezer out. A new study suggests that cousins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on frozen meat and fish for up to 30 days. The research -- prompted by COVID outbreaks in Asia in which packaged meat was suspected as the virus' source -- was conducted on frozen chicken, beef, pork and salmon. The findings were published recently in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. "Although you might not store meat in the fridge for 30 days, you might store it in the freezer for that...

Friday, May 30, 2003 12:00AM EDT Campbell president retires Wiggins reshaped small rural school into noted university By TIM SIMMONS AND BARBARA BARRETT, Staff Writers BUIES CREEK -- Norman A. Wiggins retired Thursday from his post as president of Campbell University, 36 years after taking over a small, private college that he turned into one of the best-known Baptist schools in the nation. The university trustees announced Wiggins' retirement and the selection of longtime administrator Jerry M. Wallace as the school's next president. Under Wiggins, Campbell was transformed from a rural school struggling under debt to a Baptist powerhouse with...