Lynchburg, VA (WBAP/KLIF) – The president of Liberty University is being blasted on social media, weeks after facing a lashing for partiallly re-opening the evangelical school’s campus to students during the coronavirus pandemic.
The criticism comes amid reports that nearly a dozen student are allegedly sick with COVID-19 symptoms.
The school’s physician reportedly told the New York Times that three students were referred to local hospitals while eight more were told to self-isolate.
Among those throwing daggers at Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr., is Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan who tweeted “This is criminal.” 
Chicago lawyer and writer Daniel Extrom tweeted “Lawyer up, cuz lawyers will be coming.”
Falwell, a staunch President Donald Trump supporter, is a COVID-19 skeptic, calling reaction to it and overall attempt “to make President Trump look bad.”
When a parent criticized partially re-opening school last month he called the woman a “dummy.”
For his part, Falwell tweeted that “no students on campus are sick, and one off-campus student tested positive. He added that the school was “embracing its responsibility to care for students instead of running away.”
Meantime in new developments, NBC News reports that Liberty University is pressing criminal trespassing charges against two journalists who attempted to investigate why the school in Lynchburg, Virginia has remained partially open.
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