AG Miyares says Virginia colleges and universities can’t require a Covid vaccine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am gleeful about being an MD resident and my kid can go to CS in UMD.

I'm happy that this fact makes you happy. Living in MD would make me nauseous, but YMMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am gleeful about being an MD resident and my kid can go to CS in UMD.

Have you seen the admission stats for UMD recently? It’s not a guaranteed admit. Many highly qualified students were denied last week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

Is your kid in a nursing program or other medical/health care setting for college? I can not imagine a large uninversity (20,000+ students) having the time or supplies to test every single student, every other day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

Is your kid in a nursing program or other medical/health care setting for college? I can not imagine a large uninversity (20,000+ students) having the time or supplies to test every single student, every other day.

No, not nursing. Some schools prioritized testing from the beginning and are able to do thousands of tests per day with appropriate follow up care for anyone testing positive. Large schools could use pooled testing 1-2x per week. With faculty and staff testing, the school is comparable to the size of Liberty and some of the other schools mentioned here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

GW requires vaccines (with qualified exemptions) and indoor masks and has biweekly testing requirements if boosted or weekly testing otherwise, along with other testing and isolation requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

Is your kid in a nursing program or other medical/health care setting for college? I can not imagine a large uninversity (20,000+ students) having the time or supplies to test every single student, every other day.

No, not nursing. Some schools prioritized testing from the beginning and are able to do thousands of tests per day with appropriate follow up care for anyone testing positive. Large schools could use pooled testing 1-2x per week. With faculty and staff testing, the school is comparable to the size of Liberty and some of the other schools mentioned here.

I'm not very familiar with Liberty, but when I google it says it has 15,000 residential students. So your kid's school tests 7,500 students every day (15,000 every other day?) If they test from 8 am-6 pm--thats 750 students per hour! 12 students per minute... Assuming it takes about 1 minute to get the student in the chair, swab, and get the student out of the chair.. How many people do they employ just to swab noses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

Is your kid in a nursing program or other medical/health care setting for college? I can not imagine a large uninversity (20,000+ students) having the time or supplies to test every single student, every other day.

No, not nursing. Some schools prioritized testing from the beginning and are able to do thousands of tests per day with appropriate follow up care for anyone testing positive. Large schools could use pooled testing 1-2x per week. With faculty and staff testing, the school is comparable to the size of Liberty and some of the other schools mentioned here.

I'm not very familiar with Liberty, but when I google it says it has 15,000 residential students. So your kid's school tests 7,500 students every day (15,000 every other day?) If they test from 8 am-6 pm--thats 750 students per hour! 12 students per minute... Assuming it takes about 1 minute to get the student in the chair, swab, and get the student out of the chair.. How many people do they employ just to swab noses?

In and out in under a minute according to my DC. There is staff present at the testing center, but the kids swab their own noses. Not sure why this is so unbelievable to you. It’s been happening for a while. Big schools have the money but lack the desire to put a testing protocol into place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

Is your kid in a nursing program or other medical/health care setting for college? I can not imagine a large uninversity (20,000+ students) having the time or supplies to test every single student, every other day.

No, not nursing. Some schools prioritized testing from the beginning and are able to do thousands of tests per day with appropriate follow up care for anyone testing positive. Large schools could use pooled testing 1-2x per week. With faculty and staff testing, the school is comparable to the size of Liberty and some of the other schools mentioned here.

I'm not very familiar with Liberty, but when I google it says it has 15,000 residential students. So your kid's school tests 7,500 students every day (15,000 every other day?) If they test from 8 am-6 pm--thats 750 students per hour! 12 students per minute... Assuming it takes about 1 minute to get the student in the chair, swab, and get the student out of the chair.. How many people do they employ just to swab noses?

In and out in under a minute according to my DC. There is staff present at the testing center, but the kids swab their own noses. Not sure why this is so unbelievable to you. It’s been happening for a while. Big schools have the money but lack the desire to put a testing protocol into place.

I will add that it is extremely reassuring to students and staff to know that everyone on campus is testing. If someone is positive they isolate for a minimum of 5 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

Is your kid in a nursing program or other medical/health care setting for college? I can not imagine a large uninversity (20,000+ students) having the time or supplies to test every single student, every other day.

No, not nursing. Some schools prioritized testing from the beginning and are able to do thousands of tests per day with appropriate follow up care for anyone testing positive. Large schools could use pooled testing 1-2x per week. With faculty and staff testing, the school is comparable to the size of Liberty and some of the other schools mentioned here.

I'm not very familiar with Liberty, but when I google it says it has 15,000 residential students. So your kid's school tests 7,500 students every day (15,000 every other day?) If they test from 8 am-6 pm--thats 750 students per hour! 12 students per minute... Assuming it takes about 1 minute to get the student in the chair, swab, and get the student out of the chair.. How many people do they employ just to swab noses?

In and out in under a minute according to my DC. There is staff present at the testing center, but the kids swab their own noses. Not sure why this is so unbelievable to you. It’s been happening for a while. Big schools have the money but lack the desire to put a testing protocol into place.

Sorry, yes it is unbelievable to me that a university tests 7-8,000 students every day. Why won't you name the university? The only identifying info you've given about your kid is that he/she is not in the nursing program, so it's not like naming the university would "out" you.

[Anonymous]

This will do more to fix the overrepresentation of NOVA than anything else if comments in this thread are representative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

My kid goes to a large university in NY and they must submit tests twice a week at least 48 hrs apart. This is for vaccinated and unvaccinated (w/ exemption) students as well as faculty and staff.

They have vending machines all over campus with the tests in them. They swipe their ID card to receive a test. They have to update the results of their test in the portal twice a week.

If they fail to submit their results at least twice a week, their ID card will be "restricted" which means they can't use it to access any buildings on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these schools "with fewer cases" actually doing rigorous testing?

Can't count what you don't look for...

Are the schools that are mandating the vaccine doing “rigorous testing?”

Some are testing. My kid gets tested every other day. So the numbers are accurate there. Unfortunately I am not aware of any schools with a testing protocol without a mandate so it’s really comparing apples to a tiny piece of an orange.

My kid goes to a large university in NY and they must submit tests twice a week at least 48 hrs apart. This is for vaccinated and unvaccinated (w/ exemption) students as well as faculty and staff.

They have vending machines all over campus with the tests in them. They swipe their ID card to receive a test. They have to update the results of their test in the portal twice a week.

If they fail to submit their results at least twice a week, their ID card will be "restricted" which means they can't use it to access any buildings on campus.

They do this on their own? I'm sure those results are accurate......ugh.