Covid on campus? Anyone testing positive now? How are they handling it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I convinced my freshman to take a test today after he said he was exhausted all week with an upset stomach. It’s positive. He’s going to urgent care now to confirm and get documentation. Student health center is closed over the weekend.

The parent group FB page has several posts about positive cases.

This is a huge university where nobody masks. He’s been at countless parties, bars, etc. all week. Plus classes.

The school website basically says: report it to the health center, stay in your room or mask if you must go out, tell your teachers. It also says teachers aren’t responsible for helping; they have discretion even with documentation.

Given that my kid was sick this last week and going to class since he didn’t know he had covid, I bet he will feel better by Monday or Tuesday. There’s nothing preventing him from going to class. He started feeling sick on Wednesday.

Urgent care is filled with students btw.

OP give he was partying, bars and everything else, are you surprised by this? He should miss class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My freshman’s school has no isolation dorm and no virtual class options, and positive kids are told to go home if they’re in a dorm. I heard kids who bothered to test went home on Amtrak. Most kids realize it’s a don’t ask don’t tell type policy.

Yikes! This seems like an abdication of responsibility on the part of the school.

[Anonymous]

Big 10 school also. Nothing is happening besides parents freaking out. Kids are fine, not testing and going to classes along with parties, bars, etc. School says to isolate but they don't have an isolation dorm and professors are treating g positive kids like they are sick. Miss a day or two but no more.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

You’re so damn pathetic. He should be expelled.

At this point we need to end testing and end any isolation.

Fine w testing but end isolation. When you feel sick stay home and resume life when better (24 hrs after fever if applicable).

[Anonymous]

They are essentially penalized for reporting positives. My kid is still in HS but what I hear from parents of older kids, the kids avoid testing. They are supposed to isolate but there is no room. Professors do not care and don’t offer make ups for work missed while isolating. It’s running rampant so kids know they will get it a few times. So they avoid testing.

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One of my kid’s colleges has a great screening testing program and an isolation form and mask requirements in certain conditions.

The other kid’s college has nothing! All they did was handout one rapid test at check-in! No isolation dorm (poor roommate and fellow users of the hall bathroom) and no assistance with classes and professors. My kid is a freshman who hasn’t had COVID yet and I am sure he will get it within a week. I worry that he will miss class and not be taken care of with food or medical care.

[Anonymous]

And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

Or it’s how Covid eventually turns into the weakened common cold, like other coronaviruses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I convinced my freshman to take a test today after he said he was exhausted all week with an upset stomach. It’s positive. He’s going to urgent care now to confirm and get documentation. Student health center is closed over the weekend.

The parent group FB page has several posts about positive cases.

This is a huge university where nobody masks. He’s been at countless parties, bars, etc. all week. Plus classes.

The school website basically says: report it to the health center, stay in your room or mask if you must go out, tell your teachers. It also says teachers aren’t responsible for helping; they have discretion even with documentation.

Given that my kid was sick this last week and going to class since he didn’t know he had covid, I bet he will feel better by Monday or Tuesday. There’s nothing preventing him from going to class. He started feeling sick on Wednesday.

Urgent care is filled with students btw.

The only thing he can do is mask until 5 days are over and stay away from other kids until then.

[Anonymous]

FTR, my kid never had a fever. He was just unusually tired and had an upset stomach off and on. He relented to testing on the day he felt the worst in terms of feeling tired and waking up sweaty and feeling a bit achy. He took his temp and it was normal. Aches went away once he got moving. But rapid otc test was positive and so was urgent care test.

To answer the snarky poster who asked if I was surprised he got covid since he’s been partying, no I am never surprised when anyone gets covid because you can get it anywhere. I mean, it ripped through mcps and daycare centers…and those kids don’t party.

[Anonymous]

My 2nd year college kid felt off on Aug 15. Weird symptoms 16th. 2 rapid home tests were negative. 17th went to primary doc wearing an n95 because he felt soreness in kidney area. Doc said probably not covid. 18th DH took him to ER and waited for hours masked outside. ER doc did a PCR, EKG (mild chest pain), blood work, ultra sound of kidneys and he said “for fun” let’s look at everything. All normal. Said probably covid. By the time DS came home from ER he felt fine. 19th positive PCR. We were all already masking and isolating at home, so we counted from onset of symptoms (15th). He repeated PCR on the 25th and it was negative. DH did PCR with him also negative. I did two rapid tests prior to move in day (yesterday 27th day 12). We masked and moved him in. He’s not masking, and his school is no longer requiring. They also lifted the guest policy ban. Glad he got it and it was mild enough. Hopefully immunity plus fully vaxxed and boosted will be protective. Freshman first semester seemed like a month long of crud in his dorm. If anyone cares to know symptoms, started with mild chest pain without chronic cough, tingling in legs for a day, and kidney soreness. All resolved within 24 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

You’re so damn pathetic. He should be expelled.

At this point we need to end testing and end any isolation.

Why?

Because it is meaningless. So many do not. The value in doing this for others at a macro level does not exist anymore.

Great. So your college student’s sexual partners need not test for STIs, either. It’s meaningless. Everyone for themselves!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He does not need to go to urgent care!! That’s so selfish. It just means he will spread COVID to everyone there and unless he’s immunocompromised, he’s not going to qualify for any treatments.

If for some reason he needs an extra test, tell him to go thru a cvs drive thru or do a labcorp pixel thru the mail

Calm down. It is not selfish. Home tests don’t work and I wouldn’t trust cvs. Same as home.

You are wrong. Unless it’s a PCR test, a test at urgent care is no different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

Or it’s how Covid eventually turns into the weakened common cold, like other coronaviruses.

Since we don’t know which of these two outcomes is the more likely, perhaps better to err on the side of caution, hmm?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

Or it’s how Covid eventually turns into the weakened common cold, like other coronaviruses.

Since we don’t know which of these two outcomes is the more likely, perhaps better to err on the side of caution, hmm?

Then perhaps colleges should not make doing the right thing (testing, isolating, etc.) punitive. They need to demand that professors work with isolated students. They should provide adequate isolation dorms with food. If a student knows that isolation will mean they miss a test and fail a class, of course they are not going to want to do "the right thing!"