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Post by purplehaze on Sept 10, 2020 11:55:04 GMT -5
Since this update was released on Tuesday, BC has announced 13 positive cases on their m&w swimming teams and all practices have been halted from earlier in the week:
As of right now, the Boston College website confirms 40 positive tests on campus since August 14th out of 22,239 tests. Of that, 38 positives have been undergraduate students. The website currently lists only 3 positive tests over the past week, so it appears as though the alleged swimming and diving positives have not yet been added in. As of this Tuesday, BC lists 10 students in isolation on campus, 20 students that have returned home to quarantine, and 8 students that have fully recovered from COVID 19.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 10, 2020 13:06:18 GMT -5
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Post by gks on Sept 10, 2020 19:33:37 GMT -5
Those are pretty good numbers for Boston College. I know Clark in Worcester has had 4 positive tests since August.
It can be done with precautions and a cooperating student body......Only thing preventing it is lack of effort.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 10, 2020 19:43:15 GMT -5
I have a sinking feeling that HC may be experiencing the worst of both worlds by having a near closed campus but still suffering a relatively high number of infections associated with the college. Hopefully the benefits of instruction online only and only the students that have to be on campus, on campus will kick in soon.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 11, 2020 8:15:57 GMT -5
Still interested to know-- as I am every day with this-- who tests positive, but more importantly, who out of those are getting really ILL.
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Post by Tom on Sept 11, 2020 10:41:52 GMT -5
That is important information.
A low percentage of people with COVID get really ill, and a low percentage of those people die.
That being said, if you get bunches of people with COVID but don't know it, who are running around like the good old days, they will infect a lot of people. Even these COVID positive but not really ill people should be quarantined so they don't spread it. Speaking as a math geek and not a doctor, it seems to me if 5 people in 1000 positive get really sick, then if those 1000 people wind up spreading it to 5000 people, there will be about 25 really sick people - but if I identify those 1000 quickly and isolate them, maybe I'll cut the spread to 1500 and only have 7 really sick people.
BTW - I don't know the actual percentages. I made these numbers up as an example
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 11, 2020 12:15:50 GMT -5
BC is up to 68 cases, 46 are U/Gs.** (BC doesn't test that frequently,) www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/10/sports/concerns-rise-amid-virus-cluster-bc-athletics/______________________________________________________________ BC tested 1,398 U/Gs August 16-23, 1 positive BC tested 6,973 U/Gs August 24-30, 9 positive BC tested 3,837 U/Gs August 31-Sept 6, 26 positives BC tested 1,228 U/Gs Sept 7- Sept 13, 46 positives (test data for the week updated on Sat.) ** I certainly hope BC is not doublecounting; the positives should only be for tests taken that week, not cumulative. Unless BC doublecounted, that's 72 positives among undergraduates in the first two weeks of the on-campus semester. Less than one percent, but increasing. _____________________________________________________________ HC, as of today, has 10 student positives (count is only of those tested by Broad Institute, which started testing at move-in days) and a new staff case today, the first staff case. Staff who may have contact with students are tested periodically. From the HC test totals for this week, the number of students on-campus and off-campus with permission to come on campus appears to be between 700 and 750.; 20+ percent of enrollment. Image from the Globe article. BC's equivalent of the Luth field house is the new-looking building near the center of the photo. BC's new student recreation center is the new white-roofed building center right of the image.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 11, 2020 12:27:38 GMT -5
In my opinion, the discussion of how ill young people get, and how few of them die is missing an important issue that we are learning more about. Long term, serious complications are emerging in young people that are not being captured by the statistics people talk about. One example is MIS-C, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Kids with MIS-C develop later, severe abdominal pain, high fevers, vomiting, diarrhea and sometimes sprawling rashes or bloodshot eyes. Often, they have to be hospitalized and can experience damage to multiple organs — characteristics immediately recognized as similar to Kawasaki disease. Another worrisome observation is that neurological symptoms have been widespread, and the virus has just been recently shown to invade and grow in brain tissue. This was previously unknown. A 28 year old female school teacher recently died from COVID 19 in North Carolina, just 3 days after having her infection diagnosed. We should not be cavalier about the risk to young people. www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/parenting/children-coronavirus-sickness.html?searchResultPosition=3www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/31/us/coronavirus-cases-children.html?searchResultPosition=7
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Post by hchoops on Sept 11, 2020 13:27:48 GMT -5
Thank you, Chu, for your knowledgeable view.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 11, 2020 14:45:39 GMT -5
You haven't been there in a while, the photo doesn't do the place justice. Most of the crappy buildings from the 60s and 70s are gone.
Hard for me to recognize parts of the campus; I used to go by or through it a couple times a week in the 80s and 90s, worked about a mile away.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 11, 2020 16:12:14 GMT -5
I hope they haven't moved the eagle I helped to paint purple in 1967.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 11, 2020 18:53:44 GMT -5
There was one in front of the late, not so great, Roberts Center, right? Maybe another one at the entrance off of Comm. Ave.
Which one did you guys paint?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 12, 2020 10:31:12 GMT -5
Full text of headline story in the Globe. Full text because its COVID-related and about another Jesuit institution. www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/11/metro/bc-outbreak-worries-epidemiologists-students-community/I had noted in an earlier post in this thread that lust looking at BC's COVID dashboard #'s, that BC wasn't testing enough. the problem BC has at the moment is finding a testing source that can provide test results quickly (24-36 hours, not in 5, 7, or 10 days). The second problem is counting grad students, staff, faculty, etc. total number of individuals allowed on campus is probably at least 18,000. _________________________________________________ Holy Cross, based on its dashboard, tested 990 individuals -- the great majority I believe are students -- on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week. This is a second round of testing for students.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 12, 2020 11:55:02 GMT -5
There was one in front of the late, not so great, Roberts Center, right? Maybe another one at the entrance off of Comm. Ave. Which one did you guys paint? Has the time limit expired on prosecution?
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Post by HC92 on Sept 12, 2020 12:32:09 GMT -5
There was one in front of the late, not so great, Roberts Center, right? Maybe another one at the entrance off of Comm. Ave. Which one did you guys paint? Has the time limit expired on prosecution? Yes, unless you killed someone as part of the prank.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 13, 2020 22:07:13 GMT -5
Hopefully you would be treated as leniently as these future engineers from MIT who pranked the Harvard-Yale football game at Harvard Stadium.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 14, 2020 12:13:32 GMT -5
That's a great one. Imagine if this happened today. They probably would have evacuated the stadium!
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Post by timholycross on Sept 14, 2020 14:52:16 GMT -5
That's a great one. Imagine if this happened today. They probably would have evacuated the stadium! DHS would have been on the scene immediately. No doubt a terrorist act.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 15, 2020 15:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Sept 17, 2020 7:14:32 GMT -5
BC's dashboard notes a total of 113 undergraduate positive tests (out of 16,084) since 8/14. No data on hospitalization (if any). University of Alabama, reports 2,342 positive tests amongst its undergraduates and according to one of their doctors yesterday the rate has declined considerably and there are 0 (zero) hospitalizations.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Sept 17, 2020 21:57:51 GMT -5
Prov now going fully remote:
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Post by crossbball13 on Sept 18, 2020 7:34:45 GMT -5
HC looking smarter by the day.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 18, 2020 7:40:46 GMT -5
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Post by rf1 on Sept 18, 2020 8:09:42 GMT -5
There are likely to be outbreaks at every college that had students return to campus for in person learning. It is just a matter of time before each school faces its crisis.
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Post by bison137 on Sept 18, 2020 8:20:31 GMT -5
Bucknell btw has had 17 cases in six weeks - only 6 in the past three weeks. They continue to test everyone every 10 days as well as monitoring the waste water. Total number of tests thus far is 21,400, making the pct of positives 0.08%. About 91% of students opted to return to campus, as opposed to watching classes via the internet.
Colgate has had similar success, although they test less frequently.
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