Study suggests college can safely open with frequent testing

[Anonymous]

Did you read the CNN article about what happened at an overnight camp. They cannot safely open.

[Anonymous]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/health/georgia-camp-coronavirus-outbreak-cdc-trnd/index.html

[Anonymous]

At the Georgia camp, the campers were not required to wear masks. Huge difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't jump on 'frequent testing' and then say my college tests twice a week and so we're good. the study says every two days with a rapid result test - and it was a computer simulation. Do these tests exist in sufficient quantity? I know people who've waited 3 weeks for test results in July.

If we have enough rapid results tests to pull this off, then I'm still not convinced this is the best use of them. The lack of testing, and the shortage of PPE that would be used if we did that kind of testing, is causing much greater problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the Georgia camp, the campers were not required to wear masks. Huge difference.

Realistically, you can't require people to wear masks 24/7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is what the new study concluded:

<<This model did not identify symptom-based screening alone as sufficient to contain an outbreak under any of the scenarios we considered. >>

Yeah, that makes sense. By the time the symptoms emerge, you may have already been spreading it for days.

[Anonymous]

And in a large proportion of people, they never emerge

[Anonymous]

They are running out of testing supplies now. There's not even enough to satisfy the needs of returning college students who must get a Covid test before arriving on campus.

Unless a college has a lab on-campus, it's not going to work out.