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Post by Crucis#1 on Aug 28, 2020 11:57:56 GMT -5
ND reporting a total of 537 cases since 8/3/20.
15 cases reported on 8/27/20.
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Post by alum on Aug 28, 2020 13:19:21 GMT -5
ND reporting a total of 537 cases since 8/3/20. 15 cases reported on 8/27/20. ND's numbers are a little scary, especially since the only surveillance testing they seem to be doing is of athletes. On the other hand, our friends at Bucknell are doing a whole lot of testing. While they have uncovered some cases it does not seem like a lot when we consider many schools are only testing people with symptoms or who have been exposed to someone with symptoms. I have to think that they are showing us, so far, that a college can stay in front of this problem with sufficient testing capacity. I do note that they did far fewer tests this week than they did before, but I hope we can see those numbers go back up. www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/fall-reopening/covid-19-dashboardbison--any updated thoughts about this?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Aug 28, 2020 15:26:48 GMT -5
AFAIK, Bucknell was the only college/university that had contracted with a testing company based outside of Richmond VA. IIRC, the test is a saliva test. _______________________ Georgetown allowed 500 students to live on campus. No mention of athletes being given preference. Once on campus, the students, in essence, were locked-down in their rooms for two weeks. Sampling prison life, or monastic life, I'm not sure which. georgetowner.com/articles/2020/08/24/500-gu-students-show-up-on-move-in-weekend/
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Post by bison137 on Aug 28, 2020 16:23:10 GMT -5
ND reporting a total of 537 cases since 8/3/20. 15 cases reported on 8/27/20. ND's numbers are a little scary, especially since the only surveillance testing they seem to be doing is of On the other hand, our friends at Bucknell are doing a whole lot of testing. While they have uncovered some cases it does not seem like a lot when we consider many schools are only testing people with symptoms or who have been exposed to someone with symptoms. I have to think that they are showing us, so far, that a college can stay in front of this problem with sufficient testing capacity. I do note that they did far fewer tests this week than they did before, but I hope we can see those numbers go back up. www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/fall-reopening/covid-19-dashboardbison--any updated thoughts about this? although it appears there is less testing being done this week, I am not sure that is the case. They only report a test after the result is received, which takes possibly 24-36 hours after the test. So the number this week at best is only displaying three days worth of testing. Last week they conducted 2760 tests in seven days. This week, thus far they have conducted 1676 tests in three days (or less). When the final number for this week is available, next Monday or Tuesday, it may turn out to be more than it was the previous week. Their plan was to test every student and staff member at least once every 10 days, and I have no reason to believe that plan has changed. And they are automatically testing anyone where contact tracing shows they may have been exposed.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Aug 28, 2020 16:46:08 GMT -5
COVID in Massachusetts. Several key indicators appear to have plateaued; the curve has flattened. The low positive test percentage is encouraging. COVID in Worcester city. From March 1 through July 118.23% tests were positive 28,678 tests administered through July 1 5,227 total cumulative cases From July 15 through July 292.18% tests were positive 5,483 total cumulative cases From August 12 through August 260.94% tests were positive 83,000 tests administered through August 26 5794 total cumulative cases
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Post by rf1 on Aug 29, 2020 8:06:38 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Aug 29, 2020 8:10:44 GMT -5
One of many stories such as this which will most likely continue.
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 29, 2020 8:18:50 GMT -5
This is sad to see. I can appreciate the motivation behind it and (perhaps) it might deter similar behavior. However, I. doubt that it will have much impact beyond the 17 students and their closest friends. Some have difficulty thinking about college without parties and "close" physical contact. We'll see. I wonder how long it will be until we see lawyers lining up to sue the college on behalf of some (or all) of the PC 17?
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Post by hcpride on Aug 29, 2020 8:28:17 GMT -5
Yale had one (asymptomatic) student test positive during the move-in mass testing. That student has been quarantined. Asymptomatic Yale student tests positive for coronavirus; moved to isolation housing: www.nhregister.com/news/coronavirus/article/Asymptomatic-Yale-student-tests-positive-for-15519543.php“ ‘Protocols in place for bringing students back to campus are working as they should,’ said Chun. ’Future positive cases will not be announced individually, but instead listed on the university’s website at covid19.yale.edu/yale-covid-19-statistics,’ Chun said. “ ———— More college age students (in and out of college, on and off campus) will test positive this year. And recover. Thousands, if not tens of thousands. Given the science and data. At the same time , this single (and asymptomatic) case garnered a local headline.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 29, 2020 8:38:14 GMT -5
These 17 students aren't the brightest. Don't they understand the students who can be positively identified and thus suspended are the ones who take their mask off?
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Post by hcpride on Aug 29, 2020 8:39:53 GMT -5
I was thinking that a mask with a printed lower human face might confuse the witnesses. (Maybe the 17 will use that as a defense)
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Post by crossbball13 on Aug 29, 2020 11:31:45 GMT -5
Yale had one (asymptomatic) student test positive during the move-in mass testing. That student has been quarantined. Asymptomatic Yale student tests positive for coronavirus; moved to isolation housing: www.nhregister.com/news/coronavirus/article/Asymptomatic-Yale-student-tests-positive-for-15519543.php“ ‘Protocols in place for bringing students back to campus are working as they should,’ said Chun. ’Future positive cases will not be announced individually, but instead listed on the university’s website at covid19.yale.edu/yale-covid-19-statistics,’ Chun said. “ ———— More college age students (in and out of college, on and off campus) will test positive this year. And recover. Thousands, if not tens of thousands. Given the science and data. At the same time , this single (and asymptomatic) case garnered a local headline. New Haven has a 130k population. Where was this student from? Did he sit in the middle seat on a red eye from California? Did he get a pizza at a local off campus joint before moving in? Where are his parents (who I imagine also have COVID now)? 1 student getting COVID isn’t the real story here.
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Post by hchoops on Aug 29, 2020 11:54:34 GMT -5
On the other hand, U of Alabama has had over 1000 cases since opening, 481 yesterday
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Post by Crucis#1 on Aug 29, 2020 12:07:22 GMT -5
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Post by Crucis#1 on Aug 29, 2020 12:09:37 GMT -5
ND now reporting 556 cases since 8/3/20. 11 positive cases reported on 8/28/20.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 29, 2020 13:37:27 GMT -5
On the other hand, U of Alabama has had over 1000 cases since opening, 481 yesterday Not good. But not quite that bad. The 481 cases is a three day total.
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Post by hcpride on Aug 29, 2020 13:38:03 GMT -5
Thorough (and interesting) video report (CBS) on Colgate’s 4M+ Covid plan.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 29, 2020 13:45:28 GMT -5
That's twenty cases from one off campus party. Because the City has been able to identify and test most of the attendees, this hopefully will not become an intergenerational super spreader event where older people with health conditions pay the death penalty for the selfishness of these young partiers, and the infected students will all recover. The party happened when school was not in session and it appears the public health response was from the city, not the college. I hope every HC student who attended the party cooperated completely with the public health officials. If any didn't, that would ratchet up the undisclosed discipline to the top level, imo. It appears the college isn't counting these twenty infections in their official count of zero, which is fair I guess.
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Post by hcpride on Aug 29, 2020 14:29:14 GMT -5
Yale had one (asymptomatic) student test positive during the move-in mass testing. That student has been quarantined. Asymptomatic Yale student tests positive for coronavirus; moved to isolation housing: www.nhregister.com/news/coronavirus/article/Asymptomatic-Yale-student-tests-positive-for-15519543.php“ ‘Protocols in place for bringing students back to campus are working as they should,’ said Chun. ’Future positive cases will not be announced individually, but instead listed on the university’s website at covid19.yale.edu/yale-covid-19-statistics,’ Chun said. “ ———— More college age students (in and out of college, on and off campus) will test positive this year. And recover. Thousands, if not tens of thousands. Given the science and data. At the same time , this single (and asymptomatic) case garnered a local headline. New Haven has a 130k population. Where was this student from? Did he sit in the middle seat on a red eye from California? Did he get a pizza at a local off campus joint before moving in? Where are his parents (who I imagine also have COVID now)? 1 student getting COVID isn’t the real story here. Thank goodness he’s not at home going to parties and restaurants or flying off on vacation, or hanging with his grandparents and their friends with serious health concerns ... he may be a potential super spreader...instead he’s stuck in isolation under Yale’s watchful eye. Kudos to Yale for detecting and isolating this otherwise undetected college-age carrier.
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Post by crossbball13 on Aug 29, 2020 20:15:42 GMT -5
New Haven has a 130k population. Where was this student from? Did he sit in the middle seat on a red eye from California? Did he get a pizza at a local off campus joint before moving in? Where are his parents (who I imagine also have COVID now)? 1 student getting COVID isn’t the real story here. Thank goodness he’s not at home going to parties and restaurants or flying off on vacation, or hanging with his grandparents and their friends with serious health concerns ... he may be a potential super spreader...instead he’s stuck in isolation under Yale’s watchful eye. Kudos to Yale for detecting and isolating this otherwise undetected college-age carrier. It’s fair to say both me and you know nothing about this individual nor who he may or may not have come into contact with after contracting the virus. This includes who he came into contact with in new haven, at the college, at the new haven supermarket, at Walmart etc.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 29, 2020 20:52:18 GMT -5
Unless someone here was affected by this kid from Yale, who gives a rat's ass about him.
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Post by hcpride on Aug 29, 2020 21:13:40 GMT -5
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 29, 2020 21:29:59 GMT -5
A New Haven paper- I get. A HC message board I don't. The fascination by some here about what goes on at other schools is mind-boggling.
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 30, 2020 7:58:49 GMT -5
"One can only imagine the overreaction if Yale had two." "Twice" as bad?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Aug 30, 2020 18:04:57 GMT -5
Thorough (and interesting) video report (CBS) on Colgate’s 4M+ Covid plan. Favorable portrait of Colgate and its efforts. Colgate's relative geographic isolation in a county with a very low infection rate could be critical in keeping the on-campus infection rate down. Its testing approach, testing sewage from residence halls, is being tried elsewhere. This has been shown to provide early detection of the virus' presence. A question I have is whether Colgate has students living in the Greek houses, and if so, is sewage from the fraternities and sororities being tested? _____________ NY Times reported last week that Yale had 126 cases. This number apparently includes students/staff all other schools at Yale, not just the U/Gs. (This probably includes the Medical School, where 3rd and 4th year classes start June/July.) . No medical school in the country has gone to remote learning.
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