Are all colleges going virtual?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is resuming on campus, virtual the first week, and mandatory booster and 3x/week testing - and they have a plan for isolating in residence halls if dedicated quarantine housing fills (which they expect it will, rapidly). The university is also encouraging any students who live a flexible trip from campus (such as a short to day’s drive) to postpone return the campus to allow for testing protocols to ramp up. They’ve done a solid job minimizing the impact of Covid throughout the pandemic. True, some have found their approach conservative - but those are students and families from outside the Covid super aware New England and greater northeast.

Wait the vaccinated have to be tested 3xs a week?

That isn't super aware. That is a waste of resources and a complete disregard of science. Those poor students.

Tufts has a great public health program. Whatever they’re doing is probably what everyone should be doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is resuming on campus, virtual the first week, and mandatory booster and 3x/week testing - and they have a plan for isolating in residence halls if dedicated quarantine housing fills (which they expect it will, rapidly). The university is also encouraging any students who live a flexible trip from campus (such as a short to day’s drive) to postpone return the campus to allow for testing protocols to ramp up. They’ve done a solid job minimizing the impact of Covid throughout the pandemic. True, some have found their approach conservative - but those are students and families from outside the Covid super aware New England and greater northeast.

Wait the vaccinated have to be tested 3xs a week?

That isn't super aware. That is a waste of resources and a complete disregard of science. Those poor students.

Tufts has a great public health program. Whatever they’re doing is probably what everyone should be doing.

Additionally, Tufts has said the higher frequency testing is just for the first couple of weeks to minimize impact of viral spread as the community comes back together for the new semester. Their messaging implies higher frequency testing will be short lived. All I know is they’ve had one of the most effective Covid protocols since the pandemic began. Others are in the spotlight for their creative protocols, but those same schools have experienced much higher rates of positivity.

[Anonymous]

Virginia Tech is in-person with required boosters (vax was already required) and a negative covid test required to move back into the dorms.

[Anonymous]

Michigan's classes have resumed. They have asked everyone to get boosted, with a requirement for those in the dorms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Will they all end up going virtual this semester? I think it would be prudent for at least the next month.

The latest hospitalization numbers look terrible. We’re going to have to do whatever the hospitals want us to do just to try to persuade the people working there to keep working.

We’ve seen before that virtual classes don’t necessarily stop the spread at colleges.

[Anonymous]

Many of the schools that are starting in with virtual learning are doing so with the hope of slowing the return to campus and easing the impact on their student health services and Covid housing. In all likelihood the schools that have announced the first week or two as virtual will likely extend that further, likely by a few weeks. However once the majority
Of students habe returned and the community has had time to balance out community spread in person classes will resume.

[Anonymous]

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