Colleges have begun bringing exchange students home from China

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I would think travel insurance might cover or airlines could waive fees to change from later flights.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think travel insurance might cover or airlines could waive fees to change from later flights.

I know a college student being brought back early from their study abroad program. They got a flight on United and got a half-off ticket after explaining their situation to the people at United.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Since kids usually foot their own airfare for study abroad, I doubt the school is chipping in. But they are mandating that kids return. Probably don't want the liability.

But most people buy their return ticket months in advance and can’t shell out $1-2k for another with almost no notice. Again, for my daughter, it was prohibitive at ~$1300.

1300 is not prohibitive. Put it on a credit card. It is a question of life and death...

This is NOT likely a matter of life or death! the fatality rate is about 4-5%, not much more than regular flu. the hysteria is beyond control

while I agree there's a lot of hysteria, you're not helping. nobody knows the actual fatality rate, and 4-5% is actually very, very high, much higher than flu currently.

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Nice.

Most travel insurance policies would not cover cancelation for this reason (unless the person traveling got sick overseas).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-coronavirus-outbreak-impact-travel-215600923.html

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Dont most colleges that sponsor programs have mandatory trip insurance ? I think it was for emergencies related to the progrAm. When kid’s luggage was lost there was no help, as tickets were purchased individually. But it probably covered emergency evacuation and the health frog says: don’t go, so hopefully that counts?

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Dépt not frog ? sorry...

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Anonymous wrote:Dépt not frog ? sorry...

Thought health frog was some new app I hadn't heard of.

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Health frog pp- also know do someone scheduled to go to china this week. The airline refunded ticket without surcharge.

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Anonymous wrote:Health frog pp- also know do someone scheduled to go to china this week. The airline refunded ticket without surcharge.

Go to China refund is not the same as Leave China cheap ticket

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Anonymous wrote:If it were my kid I'd bring them home now, not so much for fear of the virus but because you don't know how much longer airlines are going to continue flying out of China. British Airways just stopped all flights today and most airlines will probably follow suit. You really want your college-age kid stranded in an authoritarian country during a pandemic?

And US State dept citizens are being evacuated. DD was at JFK today: hundreds of Chinese disembarked there today in a long line.

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Anonymous wrote:Not everyone is rich. The colleges should foot the bill.

Why should the college foot the bill to get your kid out of a potentially dangerous situation? They aren’t responsible for what is transpiring.

Because it's bad press for the college if Larla from Generic U dies during study abroad because she can't afford an emergency ticket home.