More Than 6,600 Coronavirus Cases Have Been Linked to U.S. Colleges

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Anonymous wrote:Hold up.

This article is absolute garbage. The numbers are intentionally misleading. For example, Uconn is listed as 112 cases.

The cases in question are actually 90 cases among healthcare workers in Farmington, CT at the Uconn Hospital. The other 22 are Uconn employees that have been exclusively teleworking and have not set foot on campus or in any Uconn facility since March.

Not a single class is a student or employee that has had physical contact with the campus.

+1 This is bad data meant to scare people and sell papers. You need to dig into the numbers some more.

+1. At this level, it's downright fraudulent. The story should be retracted.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of professors are old as dirt.

I wish people would stop focusing on students. That isn’t the issue. Workplace safety is the issue.

Time for them to retire.

Sincerely

You sound like Trump:a Selfish idiot

He needs to retire too.

Nothing idiotic about old people retiring.

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You know corona deaths and hospitalizations increase steadily after around 45 right? So are you all going to retire?

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It was the same at Princeton. 45 of the 48 cases were employees at home at the time. The NY Times has a very clear agenda on this, which obscures its reporting.

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Anonymous wrote:You know corona deaths and hospitalizations increase steadily after around 45 right? So are you all going to retire?

If it was an option I would. My husband retired early. I have to hold out for my pension.

Retiring is a reward not a punishment

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Anonymous wrote:Still team open.

College kids can isolate from older populations. Even if they get sick, they will stay in their dorms and get immunity.

Same here. They have less side effects than having the flu. The media is going to be all over these numbers is a fear factoring way. None of them are even in a hospital. Almost all of them aren't even showing symptoms. Now they have it and will move on.

Jesus the issue isn't just will the kids be ok, but will they spread it throughout the entire community and by community I mean the WHOLE town. They don't live in a bubble. Plus we don't know that the immunity after the infection is enduring - they won't be immune forever!

But the same students would be spreading it at home. Colleges and universities are testing them regularly, requiring behavior contracts, social distancing etc.

It’s a lot better than house parties at home or the beach.

I don't know how you parent your kids but mine are at home. One or two friends over outside in the pool far apart. Not everyone is a horrible person and expecting nothing of their children.

First of all, these are young adults, not kids. Second, in fact my DS is an essential worker, as are many in this age group. We aren’t all so privileged to have a pool in the yard for our (adult) kids to float around with one or two other (adult) kids. They can go back to campus and be safe and responsible there. Even if classses are online to protect workers at risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold up.

This article is absolute garbage. The numbers are intentionally misleading. For example, Uconn is listed as 112 cases.

The cases in question are actually 90 cases among healthcare workers in Farmington, CT at the Uconn Hospital. The other 22 are Uconn employees that have been exclusively teleworking and have not set foot on campus or in any Uconn facility since March.

Not a single class is a student or employee that has had physical contact with the campus.

+1 This is bad data meant to scare people and sell papers. You need to dig into the numbers some more.

Not really. There are few students at school now and you already have problem. When they come back it will spread like wild fire. How do we know? Just look at what happen in Texas and Florida. You think college kids living in a dorm, eating meals with a bunch of other kids and socializing will not get infected and spread it to others? I guess you will be the first to say oh who could have every seen this coming?

If every modern pandemic schools are a major vector of spread.

My kid in a dorm was sick with cold after cold after cold in the months before the covid closures. I visited him once for a couple of days, and got a cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold up.

This article is absolute garbage. The numbers are intentionally misleading. For example, Uconn is listed as 112 cases.

The cases in question are actually 90 cases among healthcare workers in Farmington, CT at the Uconn Hospital. The other 22 are Uconn employees that have been exclusively teleworking and have not set foot on campus or in any Uconn facility since March.

Not a single class is a student or employee that has had physical contact with the campus.

+1 This is bad data meant to scare people and sell papers. You need to dig into the numbers some more.

+1. At this level, it's downright fraudulent. The story should be retracted.

Yep, the PP is correct:

https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Most-University-of-Connecticut-COVID-cases-tied-15442925.php

The University of Connecticut was listed as having a cumulative 112 cases, which placed 10th in the country, just under the University of California at Berkeley which reported 123.

How can that be?

UConn officials say 90 of those cases are associated with personnel at the UConn Health campus in Farmington. The remaining 22 were UConn employees who work at Storrs or regional campuses but who were all telecommuting at the time of their diagnosis.

Several times, UConn President Tom Katsouleas has made a point of saying that during the height of the pandemic this spring, students forced to stay on campus for one reason or the other managed to do so without getting sick.

Really quite disgusted with this NYT article.

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As college students and professors decide whether to head back to class, and as universities weigh how and whether to reopen, the coronavirus is already on campus.

A New York Times survey of every public four-year college in the country, as well as every private institution that competes in Division I sports or is a member of an elite group of research universities, revealed at least 6,600 cases tied to about 270 colleges over the course of the pandemic. And the new academic year has not even begun at most schools.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/28/us/covid-19-colleges-universities.html?searchResultPosition=1

Well it will be very hard to reopen colleges/universities.

Considering that there are 20 million college students in the U.S. 6600 is a ridiculously small number of cases.

Psst: school hasn't even started yet.

Does this go back to February when schools were still in session?

You mean back when the virus wasn't circulating yet and was still making its way here on airplanes and cruise ships? Why would that be relevant to today's conditions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was the same at Princeton. 45 of the 48 cases were employees at home at the time. The NY Times has a very clear agenda on this, which obscures its reporting.

This is really frustrating. People have and will get the virus, but these people did not get it because of working in the college, nor did they transfer it to each other.

I just read another article which was trying to pull together data about day cares and summer camps that were open this summer. Big caveat was the difficulty in getting the data, but it was worth noting that:
1. Many of these places were able to open and stay open without outbreaks
2. Even in instances where there were reported cases, in many instances there wasn't an "outbreak" linked to the facility--it was simply that a person got sick, which will happen.

I'm very much in favor of strong preventative measures:
required face masks,
frequent testing,
adhering to social distancing requirements
shutting down large gatherings
rolling back openings such as bars

I think if we do this, we can open educational facilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was the same at Princeton. 45 of the 48 cases were employees at home at the time. The NY Times has a very clear agenda on this, which obscures its reporting.

This is really frustrating. People have and will get the virus, but these people did not get it because of working in the college, nor did they transfer it to each other.

I just read another article which was trying to pull together data about day cares and summer camps that were open this summer. Big caveat was the difficulty in getting the data, but it was worth noting that:
1. Many of these places were able to open and stay open without outbreaks
2. Even in instances where there were reported cases, in many instances there wasn't an "outbreak" linked to the facility--it was simply that a person got sick, which will happen.

I'm very much in favor of strong preventative measures:
required face masks,
frequent testing,
adhering to social distancing requirements
shutting down large gatherings
rolling back openings such as bars

I think if we do this, we can open educational facilities.

Meant to post the link to the article:
https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/reopen-schools-camp-day-care-covid-data.html