COVID at Colleges

[Anonymous]

Looking from feedback from parents as to how Covid is going at your kids’ colleges.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/cornell-university-reports-indications-substantial-234736240.html

This article is about Cornell. Are other colleges seeing an uptick in cases? Is this going to get worse for the kids after Spring Break?

[Anonymous]

Many colleges have already had spring break and the students are back.

[Anonymous]

COVID cases are way down at my son's top 20 medium sized university. He is attending a large formal party with hundreds of students this weekend and was at another one a few weeks ago. Masking is not required on campus except at the professor's discretion. My son has one class that requires masking. He is having the time of his life, as one should in college. Sad to see many of the other schools are still under draconian mitigation measure.

[Anonymous]

Lots of kids are refusing to get tested on campus because a lot of the colleges have draconian measures. This is my way of saying it is absolutely impossible to know what the Covid rate is on any campus because none of them are requiring testing anymore, the kids who get tested are The ones who choose to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids are refusing to get tested on campus because a lot of the colleges have draconian measures. This is my way of saying it is absolutely impossible to know what the Covid rate is on any campus because none of them are requiring testing anymore, the kids who get tested are The ones who choose to do so.

My kid’s college requires testing after spring break. Higher education is not a monolith.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many colleges have already had spring break and the students are back.

Cornells numbers are particularly concerning because they have not had Spring Break yet (first week in April) and they stopped surveillance testing. As a Cornell parent I feel like we are right back to December when I am cancelling the bus ticket home and driving up to get them suddenly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids are refusing to get tested on campus because a lot of the colleges have draconian measures. This is my way of saying it is absolutely impossible to know what the Covid rate is on any campus because none of them are requiring testing anymore, the kids who get tested are The ones who choose to do so.

A lot of schools aren’t hosting quarantine dorms anymore, so if the school finds out you’re positive your expected to go find accommodations to quarantine. There is no way most college kids can afford to find that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:COVID cases are way down at my son's top 20 medium sized university. He is attending a large formal party with hundreds of students this weekend and was at another one a few weeks ago. Masking is not required on campus except at the professor's discretion. My son has one class that requires masking. He is having the time of his life, as one should in college. Sad to see many of the other schools are still under draconian mitigation measure.

Cornell's numbers were very low until last week.

[Anonymous]

Oh no! And why Cornell again? Isn’t the campus spacious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! And why Cornell again? Isn’t the campus spacious?

Hopefully they are not the canary in the coal mine letting the rest of the country knowing whats coming as they seemed to be in December.

[Anonymous]

My son's school (SLAC) had their break at the end of February and had no problems with increased cases upon return. They had zero cases until this week when they had double digits in one day. Most restrictions have been lifted (masking optional, still testing regularly) but I think if numbers keep going up they may return to masking. Other than that, life has been pretty "normal" for much of this school year for him minus a few weeks in January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! And why Cornell again? Isn’t the campus spacious?

And they mandated the Covid shot.

I would guess they also mandated boosters?

[Anonymous]

Jesus Christ. People are still worried about Covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids are refusing to get tested on campus because a lot of the colleges have draconian measures. This is my way of saying it is absolutely impossible to know what the Covid rate is on any campus because none of them are requiring testing anymore, the kids who get tested are The ones who choose to do so.

A lot of schools aren’t hosting quarantine dorms anymore, so if the school finds out you’re positive your expected to go find accommodations to quarantine. There is no way most college kids can afford to find that.

Yep. And the cases are so mild that it's really no worse than a cold-and prior to covid college students went to class with a cold and thought nothing of it.

[Anonymous]

JMU: zero current cases, zero student cases, zero employee cases, zero tests. It's going great.