Covid at UVA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

Disappointed at what! UVA/Dean Groves/Ryan have done a fabulous job. I truly think you don't know what you are talking about. Do you read UVA Today? Do you actually know about the hybrid model? Do you know what they've done to help staff and professors? WHAT EXACTLY do you think they've done wrong? Precisely what? Look at the disasters at Notre Dame/JMU/UNC and other schools that brought kids back too early or had so many cases they had to send them all home. GMU has also done a great job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

And that's why they are running UVA and people like you are not. You reaad a couple of click- and view-bait headlines, but have little understanding of just how low the risk of coronavirus is to young adults. Infertility? What are you even talking about?

You might want to check out the scientific literature. COVID-19 attacks cells expressing ACE-2, including sperm. This has led to concerns about implications for male fertility. See:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/andr.12859
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.00183.2020

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Do you know what "quarantine" means?

Ha, as if college students are quarantining effectively.

Everyone I know who lives in college towns or teach at universities in person are really worried.

I'm "really worried" about the exploding national debt, which is arguably a much bigger problem than COVID-19.

Wow almost 200,000 dead in about 8 months and climbing yet you can not worry about two things at once?

The college cases are concerning because we all know those kids go home and some point or are out in the community. While you think more Americans dying is ok, many people are not on the same page. Not to mention we have zero leadership in this area, so yes many more will die. Not being dramatic these are facts, based on science.

The National Debt is an awesome reason not to vote for Trump. Because VEGAS is actually taking bets on how much he is raising it and how much he has raised that number. More than any other President ever! You see Trump loves to play funny money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

And that's why they are running UVA and people like you are not. You reaad a couple of click- and view-bait headlines, but have little understanding of just how low the risk of coronavirus is to young adults. Infertility? What are you even talking about?

You might want to check out the scientific literature. COVID-19 attacks cells expressing ACE-2, including sperm. This has led to concerns about implications for male fertility. See:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/andr.12859
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.00183.2020

uh, yeah, and maybe brain injury, and maybe respiratory, and maybe some organ issues in very bad cases of the elderly . . . but no one really knows yet, right? And the students aren't sick, they aren't dying. So WHAT are you talking about re UVA?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

Read UVAs social media posts to get educated if you want to follow it. The higher numbers follow some under-reported days. They are also testing wastewater and doing proactive testing of dorms to catch asymptomatic cases. I see the neighboring health district has a positivity test only around 4.4%.

Here is a good site that analyzes covid cases throughout Virginia with a section that follows colleges:
https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

Disappointed at what! UVA/Dean Groves/Ryan have done a fabulous job. I truly think you don't know what you are talking about. Do you read UVA Today? Do you actually know about the hybrid model? Do you know what they've done to help staff and professors? WHAT EXACTLY do you think they've done wrong? Precisely what? Look at the disasters at Notre Dame/JMU/UNC and other schools that brought kids back too early or had so many cases they had to send them all home. GMU has also done a great job.

Well, I work at a university and have been privy to the decision-making process that resulted in going remote this fall. And I’ve watched the UVA communications (official and unofficial) very closely. Bringing thousands of students back to a communal living environment is irresponsible while there’s still community spread of the disease. Period. Even Hopkins, which had an incredibly sophisticated testing plan and is advised by the best public health school in the world, decided to go remote. All of the schools that are bringing their full student bodies back are endangering students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding community.

To be clear, since I assume from your frantic tone that you’re the parent of a current UVA student, I don’t blame parents for sending their kids back. I blame the school for creating the situation where you were forced to make that choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

You have no idea what is going on in other campuses do you? This is nothing. My kid's there right now. Having dinner with a Dean tonight. It's business as usual but care is being taken.

No I don't know, however, you can see the large spike...you don't find that concerning? I do hope the university is doing something to curtail this or it will get completely out of control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

You have no idea what is going on in other campuses do you? This is nothing. My kid's there right now. Having dinner with a Dean tonight. It's business as usual but care is being taken.

No I don't know, however, you can see the large spike...you don't find that concerning? I do hope the university is doing something to curtail this or it will get completely out of control.

I would add that you must know that their positivity rate is almost 9%. You don't see the issue with that?

[Anonymous]

Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

Someone tracks the daily status from the college dashboards and makes estimates of the percentage that are positive from the testing data. For UVA, it is increasing, but certainly not to the level of Radford, JMU, and VT yet. UVA is estimated at 4.2% of population positive vs. 33% at Radford, 28% at JMU, and 11.2% at VT. The other Virginia schools seem to be doing better at this point.

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html

[Anonymous]

I believe the spike is because a piece of equipment in the lab analyzing the tests was offline for a day (Wednesday or Thursday).

But they are quarantining specific dorms and isolating positive testers that seems to be what other schools have done. UVA isn’t out of line.

For every person who didn’t want schools (not just colleges) to open, there were people demanding that they open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

I know a student at UVa who got a fever the week she got to school...never mentioned it to anyone, had a party at her apartment... a few days later all roommates and friends - 15 people - tested positive just because she decide not to mention she had a fever. Yeah, I thought UVa students might be smart too, but apparently not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

Disappointed at what! UVA/Dean Groves/Ryan have done a fabulous job. I truly think you don't know what you are talking about. Do you read UVA Today? Do you actually know about the hybrid model? Do you know what they've done to help staff and professors? WHAT EXACTLY do you think they've done wrong? Precisely what? Look at the disasters at Notre Dame/JMU/UNC and other schools that brought kids back too early or had so many cases they had to send them all home. GMU has also done a great job.

The GMU campus is an absolute ghost town right now. That is why we're doing so well.

[Anonymous]

Where’s the sanctimonious UVA parent who claimed UVA students have more “character” than students at other schools and so wouldn’t be irresponsibly partying and spreading COVID? Please stand up and admit how wrong you were. We’ll wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

Disappointed at what! UVA/Dean Groves/Ryan have done a fabulous job. I truly think you don't know what you are talking about. Do you read UVA Today? Do you actually know about the hybrid model? Do you know what they've done to help staff and professors? WHAT EXACTLY do you think they've done wrong? Precisely what? Look at the disasters at Notre Dame/JMU/UNC and other schools that brought kids back too early or had so many cases they had to send them all home. GMU has also done a great job.

Well, I work at a university and have been privy to the decision-making process that resulted in going remote this fall. And I’ve watched the UVA communications (official and unofficial) very closely. Bringing thousands of students back to a communal living environment is irresponsible while there’s still community spread of the disease. Period. Even Hopkins, which had an incredibly sophisticated testing plan and is advised by the best public health school in the world, decided to go remote. All of the schools that are bringing their full student bodies back are endangering students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding community.

To be clear, since I assume from your frantic tone that you’re the parent of a current UVA student, I don’t blame parents for sending their kids back. I blame the school for creating the situation where you were forced to make that choice.

Not frantic. Not a current parent. And they are using a hybrid model. Students could opt of of attending ALL classes and doing all online, so they did not "bring thousands of students back to a communal living environment". In fact, they sent them home in March. Some students are there. Most are using Zoom. I know five graduate students that live off campus and do everything by Zoom, so I still don't know what you are talking aboutl