ajs2021

I reached out to a professor at one of my top schools... I had already interviewed over the phone, and the professor told me several times I was a strong candidate. Since I hadn't heard anything in a while, I reached out for an update. He informed me that because of the corona virus, several of his contracts had been delayed or cancelled. Because of that, he decided he was no longer going to take on a graduate student this fall. I went from having very good chances of being accepted to one of my top program choices to being completely knocked down because of a virus. Has anyone else experienced other delays because of this? Am I the only one unlucky enough to have applied to a program that was negatively affected by the pandemic?