Is Notre Dame screwing up?

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Anonymous wrote:Two weeks will come and go. Then you’ll say JUST WAIT TIL IT GETS COLDER! Womp, womp.

In our world yesterday, every 4 minutes, a person died of Covid.

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408/2339 positive

why haven’t they pulled the plug yet?

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Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control.

Uh, NYC has had the pandemic under control for a while now.

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Anonymous wrote:2234 tests done and 374 positives is very bad.

They have only tested symptomatic people up until now.

^meant to say symptomatic AND exposed people.

symptomatic AND exposed people AND the football team (multiple times)

The number of daily cases has decreased significantly. The tests shown do not include the surveillance testing yet. I imagine that will show up in tomorrow's numbers. The only tests shown here are exposed, symptomatic, and, yes, the football team. The initial outbreak appears to be under control. Cases so far are very mild and no hospitalizations. Go Irish. Beat COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control.

Has anyone actually been admitted to the hospital at this time? NYC was a completely different story, with people dying and the hospitals absolutely overrun. ND has had a bunch of positive tests, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting seriously sick or needing to be hospitalized.

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It is early days.

And if kids are sent home, the ripple effect of these exposures will spread far and wide.

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Anonymous wrote:2234 tests done and 374 positives is very bad.

They have only tested symptomatic people up until now.

^meant to say symptomatic AND exposed people.

symptomatic AND exposed people AND the football team (multiple times)

The number of daily cases has decreased significantly. The tests shown do not include the surveillance testing yet. I imagine that will show up in tomorrow's numbers. The only tests shown here are exposed, symptomatic, and, yes, the football team. The initial outbreak appears to be under control. Cases so far are very mild and no hospitalizations. Go Irish. Beat COVID.

WHy are they so much worse than many of the other schools? They seem to be testing less and having more cases than many other schools of similar size who have been going to school for similar time.

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Anonymous wrote:2234 tests done and 374 positives is very bad.

They have only tested symptomatic people up until now.

^meant to say symptomatic AND exposed people.

symptomatic AND exposed people AND the football team (multiple times)

The number of daily cases has decreased significantly. The tests shown do not include the surveillance testing yet. I imagine that will show up in tomorrow's numbers. The only tests shown here are exposed, symptomatic, and, yes, the football team. The initial outbreak appears to be under control. Cases so far are very mild and no hospitalizations. Go Irish. Beat COVID.

Hoping they pull it off!

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Anonymous wrote:2234 tests done and 374 positives is very bad.

They have only tested symptomatic people up until now.

^meant to say symptomatic AND exposed people.

symptomatic AND exposed people AND the football team (multiple times)

The number of daily cases has decreased significantly. The tests shown do not include the surveillance testing yet. I imagine that will show up in tomorrow's numbers. The only tests shown here are exposed, symptomatic, and, yes, the football team. The initial outbreak appears to be under control. Cases so far are very mild and no hospitalizations. Go Irish. Beat COVID.

Hoping they pull it off!

+1. We should all be hoping they pull it off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:408/2339 positive

why haven’t they pulled the plug yet?

0 kids in the hospital

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control.

Has anyone actually been admitted to the hospital at this time? NYC was a completely different story, with people dying and the hospitals absolutely overrun. ND has had a bunch of positive tests, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting seriously sick or needing to be hospitalized.

Wondering the same thing, myself. I’m old enough to remember when we were told that shutdowns/closures were happening just so we could prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed. Anyone else remember that? If the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, not sure what the hysteria is all about.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control.

Has anyone actually been admitted to the hospital at this time? NYC was a completely different story, with people dying and the hospitals absolutely overrun. ND has had a bunch of positive tests, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting seriously sick or needing to be hospitalized.

Wondering the same thing, myself. I’m old enough to remember when we were told that shutdowns/closures were happening just so we could prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed. Anyone else remember that? If the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, not sure what the hysteria is all about.

We learned more.

"Flatten the curve" was the initial goal, and it came from the response for pandemic influenza.

However, with COVID, we now know more, and the goal is to get the rate of spread in a community to a point at which outbreaks can be contained easily, with contact tracing. The number experts have come up with is 1 new case, per 100,000 people, per day.

Counties and states and countries that can get down to this low level are in the "green" zone and they have to stay alert, but they can mostly go about their lives without too much disruption. They can even walk around without masks and have friends over for dinner. They need to continue to do surveillance testing and when they see an outbreak need to pounce on it hard.

The higher up on the scale you go (yellow zone or orange zone) the harder you have to work and more measures you need to take, to not end up in the red danger zone. So experts have realized it is actually easier to get to green, and just stay there, than it is to get to low orange, and have to continually fight to stay out of the explosive red zone (when hospitals do get overwhelmed). Yes, you need to take tough measures at first to get to green, but if you do it right and other states around you also do it right, the benefits will be huge both economic and socially.

Does that make sense?

So a college campus with a large outbreak is really going to mess with a community's ability to stay at least in the yellow. And a campus can't have ANY in person activities if they are in the orange or red. Spread is just too fast in a college setting.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control.

Has anyone actually been admitted to the hospital at this time? NYC was a completely different story, with people dying and the hospitals absolutely overrun. ND has had a bunch of positive tests, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting seriously sick or needing to be hospitalized.

Wondering the same thing, myself. I’m old enough to remember when we were told that shutdowns/closures were happening just so we could prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed. Anyone else remember that? If the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, not sure what the hysteria is all about.

Sorry, it isn't hysteria. It is science.

https://globalepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/key_metrics_and_indicators_v4.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame has held masses with sacraments which no doubt spread the virus. How can you have people drinking wine together with COVID going around?!

For those that don't believe me, here is ND's own website saying they will/have held masses of sacramental initiation!

https://ndworks.nd.edu/news/social-distancing-keeps-40-from-receiving-sacraments-at-basilica-but-cant-loosen-their-hold-on-faith/

Um, you’ve linked to a post from early April. I don’t think that’s really relevant to today.

Really? https://campusministry.nd.edu/events/2020/11/08/mass-of-full-communion-confirmation/

Every Catholic parish I am aware of during the pandemic has reserved reception from the communion chalice (cup)f or the celebrating priest only. There may be an exception made for someone with severe celiac disease who has made prior arrangements. In this case, a separate chalice would be reserved for the congregant with celiac disease. At the last Catholic mass that I went to, parishioners took off their masks for a second in order to consume the Communion wafer. I don't see this as a major vector for COVID, unless there is a choir without masks.