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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 5, 2020 8:26:01 GMT -5
The college said, -- a week or ten days ago? -- that the number of cases was "more than ten", none of whom were infected on campus. This indicates these were either students who returned home, and subsequently became infected, or staff who were working from home, or non-essential employees who were not working at all. The college said it expected the number of cases to grow in coming weeks.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 5, 2020 12:00:56 GMT -5
As of 2.5 weeks ago, nine cases among HC students (one hospitalized), one employee, one father, two grandfathers. I believe one of the grandfather's died.
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Post by Chu Chu on May 5, 2020 15:29:40 GMT -5
Thank God they closed the campus. I am worried about opening in the fall.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 5, 2020 15:37:10 GMT -5
Thank God they closed the campus. I am worried about opening in the fall. Unless a student had a pre-existing health condition, just about every student on campus will / would be perfectly fine. |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 5, 2020 16:04:22 GMT -5
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 5, 2020 16:11:36 GMT -5
PP, you're a data guy. What does the data tell you? This virus is harmful to an isolated part of the country.
If we cherry picked every healthy person who was sick / died from every virus out there, then the country would be forever shut down.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 5, 2020 17:24:52 GMT -5
PP, you're a data guy. What does the data tell you? This virus is harmful to an isolated part of the country. If we cherry picked every healthy person who was sick / died from every virus out there, then the country would be forever shut down. You made a sweeping statement, I linked an exception to such a statement. Using NYC data for infections and hospitalizations for age 18-44 cohort (63,000*+ cases as of May 5); HC with 3,000 students should expect about 57 cases, and five hospitalizations of those infected. Perhaps coincidentally, given the very small sample size, the one hospitalization among nine infected HC students is within the ballpark. This is very low risk, but it is not 'no risk'. * The number of cases for this cohort is about two percent of the 3+ million residents of NYC who comprise this cohort. |
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 5, 2020 17:53:22 GMT -5
I can’t go by these numbers because the age of students at HC is 18-22, so the overwhelming majority of the 18-44 range you have listed doesn’t apply to HC students. Plus, I imagine those who are 35+ in New York City are not in as good physical health as a college student (even if that health is just physically being in good shape, I.e. not overweight), which contributes to being adversely affected by this virus.
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Post by sader1970 on May 5, 2020 20:37:15 GMT -5
Since that was the specific question that I asked Fr. B in the Zoom, I paid careful attention to his answer and wrote down the same as what you posted Phreek. I have to say that I was impressed that Fr. B had a specific answer considering the vast majority of kids were/are off campus and he went further than my question by talking about the grandfathers and fathers (I asked about students, faculty, staff and alums only). I have disagreed with him on many things over his tenure but I want to give him kudos for how he is handling this pandemic and the proper tone that he has set. The Jesuit priest in him has come to the fore over just being a college president. The two Zoom videoconferences I was on with him with slightly different audiences, he ended both by emphasizing the care and concern and the need for prayers for all those afflicted physically, emotionally and economically by this virus.
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Post by Chu Chu on May 6, 2020 9:34:43 GMT -5
Thank God they closed the campus. I am worried about opening in the fall. Unless a student had a pre-existing health condition, just about every student on campus will / would be perfectly fine. I hope so. Unfortunately, we need to also consider our faculty, staff, student families, visitors to campus and the general community of Central Massachusetts, which has been heavily affected thus far. There are many high risk individuals within these other groups. We are not an island. |
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