Colleges that reopened and are shutting down

[Anonymous]

Towson is closing the dorms after 3 days.

[Anonymous]

Outbreaks ranging from significant to huge at colleges in IA, CA, MS, AL, NC.

Students and faculty affected. The virus is spreading fairly quickly once campuses open. Most transmission is happening off campus, but once transmitted to dozens or hundreds of students, they carry it back on campus and infect staff. Many schools are quarantining, the question is how big do the outbreaks have to be before these schools close campus and revert to distance learning. And how well will the staff and schools transition from in-person classes to remote classes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/25/college-coronavirus-cases/

Ugh, just found this article that says a NYT survey of more than 1500 colleges and universities reveal at least 26K cases of coronavirus and 64 deaths. Colleges in at least 15 states have reported outbreaks since the start of school this year alone.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/26/more-than-25000-cases-on-us-campuses-here-are-the-latest-college-coronavirus-updates/#614f9f663cbb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend tells me that Georgetown's Board keeps pushing for them to open ($$$$$), while DC (who has final word) keeps saying no, it's not safe (ie: since the pandemic is still happening and "leaders" are pushing for little or no change).

Seems the schools that are pushing to open are looking at the bottom line, trying to justify the students paying full tuition for online classes.

Maybe Georgetown and other DC privates are looking at DC’s low positivity rate and their own near unlimited funds to modify as necessary and think they could give it a safe go.

Georgetown made their decision very early. This isn’t going to change before spring semester. What a weird post.

[Anonymous]

NC State has multiple clusters and says students have to be out of dorms by September 6. Reschedules first ACC football game against Tech, but the players and season forge on.

Appalling!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.goucher.edu/experience/living-well/student-health-center/coronavirus-information/

Goucher going remote

What is point of an all black school then?

[Anonymous]

I drove my daughter to college Friday. An 8 hour drive. Also brought another daughter who went for ride. She has three roommates.

I arrived we set up her room, two other parents and a sibling, another girl, he mom sister and boyfriend and other parents just left.

There were 11 people there. Parking lot full of out of state plates, her apartment complex sold out. Everyone is distance learning no Covid checks required. The school alone is not to blame the kids come back either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Outbreaks ranging from significant to huge at colleges in IA, CA, MS, AL, NC.

Students and faculty affected. The virus is spreading fairly quickly once campuses open. Most transmission is happening off campus, but once transmitted to dozens or hundreds of students, they carry it back on campus and infect staff. Many schools are quarantining, the question is how big do the outbreaks have to be before these schools close campus and revert to distance learning. And how well will the staff and schools transition from in-person classes to remote classes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/25/college-coronavirus-cases/

Ugh, just found this article that says a NYT survey of more than 1500 colleges and universities reveal at least 26K cases of coronavirus and 64 deaths. Colleges in at least 15 states have reported outbreaks since the start of school this year alone.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/26/more-than-25000-cases-on-us-campuses-here-are-the-latest-college-coronavirus-updates/#614f9f663cbb

Two things:

It says “since the pandemic began”, so not all new cases.
Also, it doesn’t say out of how many people total. If avg total population of 5K each, that’s $7.5M total and a 0.3% positivity rate, less than general population. I’d much prefer the total picture.

Assume

[Anonymous]

^Assumption can be off but you get the idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Towson is closing the dorms after 3 days.

I feel bad for the freshman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Towson is closing the dorms after 3 days.

I feel bad for the freshman.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outbreaks ranging from significant to huge at colleges in IA, CA, MS, AL, NC.

Students and faculty affected. The virus is spreading fairly quickly once campuses open. Most transmission is happening off campus, but once transmitted to dozens or hundreds of students, they carry it back on campus and infect staff. Many schools are quarantining, the question is how big do the outbreaks have to be before these schools close campus and revert to distance learning. And how well will the staff and schools transition from in-person classes to remote classes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/25/college-coronavirus-cases/

Ugh, just found this article that says a NYT survey of more than 1500 colleges and universities reveal at least 26K cases of coronavirus and 64 deaths. Colleges in at least 15 states have reported outbreaks since the start of school this year alone.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/26/more-than-25000-cases-on-us-campuses-here-are-the-latest-college-coronavirus-updates/#614f9f663cbb

Two things:

It says “since the pandemic began”, so not all new cases.
Also, it doesn’t say out of how many people total. If avg total population of 5K each, that’s $7.5M total and a 0.3% positivity rate, less than general population. I’d much prefer the total picture.

Assume

This. None of these numbers are meaningful without context.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outbreaks ranging from significant to huge at colleges in IA, CA, MS, AL, NC.

Students and faculty affected. The virus is spreading fairly quickly once campuses open. Most transmission is happening off campus, but once transmitted to dozens or hundreds of students, they carry it back on campus and infect staff. Many schools are quarantining, the question is how big do the outbreaks have to be before these schools close campus and revert to distance learning. And how well will the staff and schools transition from in-person classes to remote classes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/25/college-coronavirus-cases/

Ugh, just found this article that says a NYT survey of more than 1500 colleges and universities reveal at least 26K cases of coronavirus and 64 deaths. Colleges in at least 15 states have reported outbreaks since the start of school this year alone.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/26/more-than-25000-cases-on-us-campuses-here-are-the-latest-college-coronavirus-updates/#614f9f663cbb

Two things:

It says “since the pandemic began”, so not all new cases.
Also, it doesn’t say out of how many people total. If avg total population of 5K each, that’s $7.5M total and a 0.3% positivity rate, less than general population. I’d much prefer the total picture.

Assume

Well, we'd all prefer a total picture but we have no national tracking system with consistent ways of reporting. And nearly all the cases are new since most colleges closed down right after spring break and didn't have on-campus testing. These are also the numbers before many schools have even been back at all or that long. You can't think about positivity rates when the people have only been living there two weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CDC is throwing in the towel.

I guess, at this point, the US deserves to be a failed state.

Isn’t this exactly what Donald’s wanted to do for months? Because, less testing, less cases.

Yes, exactly. The election is fast approaching. Everything we are told now should be viewed in that light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.goucher.edu/experience/living-well/student-health-center/coronavirus-information/

Goucher going remote

What is point of an all black school then?

Goucher is definitely not "all black"

[Anonymous]

Rice is doing weekly testing of all students and it is going well...

Got through freshman orientation and classes started Monday. Fingers crossed.

https://coronavirus.rice.edu