How will your child's university handle sick and exposed kids?

[Anonymous]

Just curious how they handle this. Will the quarantine in their dorm rooms?

[Anonymous]

U of S.C. stated they will have a quarantine dorm- not just a room....

[Anonymous]

If they put the sick student in the Covid dorm what will they do with the roommate or other friends? You can’t put students that were exposed but not sick with sick people. You can’t lock them in like the fiasco of the nursing homes and cruise ships.

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame has separate buildings where students will move if they need to.

https://here.nd.edu/news/vp-of-student-affairs-hoffmann-harding-letter-on-returning-to-campus/

"While off-campus students will likely complete any necessary isolation or quarantine time in their homes, University staff will check in with these patients daily, provide monitoring supplies, and ensure the students have access to a delivery service for groceries, food, and supplies. The University has contracted with three off-campus partners for quarantine or isolation space for on-campus students and has additional apartments reserved for this purpose in a separate building of Fischer Graduate Residences. These students will also be checked on daily, provided with monitoring supplies, and delivered two daily meals prepared by Campus Dining. All isolated or quarantined students will be referred to Sara Bea Accessibility Services for accommodations and classroom support, including monitoring of exams. UHS providers will follow up with students regularly and advise when they are able to return to the classroom. Finally, the University has strong partnerships in place with both local hospitals if a student’s illness becomes severe.

The University, in partnership with local public health officials, will perform contact tracing for any infected student. Our system is intended to allow contact tracers to thoroughly identify all high-risk or close contacts, conduct timely notification of contacts to prevent further transmission, ensure resources are available for appropriate medical evaluation of any contacts who are or become symptomatic, and ensure successful quarantine or isolation of contacts during the potential time frame when they may be infectious."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they put the sick student in the Covid dorm what will they do with the roommate or other friends? You can’t put students that were exposed but not sick with sick people. You can’t lock them in like the fiasco of the nursing homes and cruise ships.

Related to this point: What are colleges saying specifically about who is in charge of checking on students who are in these campus quarantine dorms? I want to know who would be in daily contact with those students, how often each day, and how? Will anyone see them in person (maybe a health care professional in PPE?) or will everthing rely just on phone calls, texts and Face Timing? Can all students really be relied on to take temperatures etc. and report symptoms accurately if they want to get out of quarantine? I'm skeptical.

All I'm seeing so far is someone will as Notre Dame says, "check in with these students daily" but if a student is sliding from a positive test into actual symptoms, does the college just wait for the student to say "I need the hospital" himself? I picture some students who would try to tough things out and not admit to how sick they feel, and if no one lays eyes on them in person but just "ensures they have access to a delivery service" and a once-daily remote check-in -- I think the colleges are being very trusting that quarantining students is going to go easily and that all students are going to admit to needing help.

Covid can move fast and people can suddenly have extremely low oxygen levels with NO shortness of breath to alert them. (This isn't something I'm making up; look up "silent hypoxia" and the NYT article by Dr. Richard Levitan.) Yeah, yeah, college students are adults as people here love to say over and over. But I just foresee the quarantine dorms possibly having cases where a student doesn't recognize how sick he or she really is, and a remote check-in not detecting it.

[Anonymous]

^^ You better keep your child home in your bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ You better keep your child home in your bubble.

Send your child to Community College and you can helicopter him/her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they put the sick student in the Covid dorm what will they do with the roommate or other friends? You can’t put students that were exposed but not sick with sick people. You can’t lock them in like the fiasco of the nursing homes and cruise ships.

Related to this point: What are colleges saying specifically about who is in charge of checking on students who are in these campus quarantine dorms? I want to know who would be in daily contact with those students, how often each day, and how? Will anyone see them in person (maybe a health care professional in PPE?) or will everthing rely just on phone calls, texts and Face Timing? Can all students really be relied on to take temperatures etc. and report symptoms accurately if they want to get out of quarantine? I'm skeptical.

All I'm seeing so far is someone will as Notre Dame says, "check in with these students daily" but if a student is sliding from a positive test into actual symptoms, does the college just wait for the student to say "I need the hospital" himself? I picture some students who would try to tough things out and not admit to how sick they feel, and if no one lays eyes on them in person but just "ensures they have access to a delivery service" and a once-daily remote check-in -- I think the colleges are being very trusting that quarantining students is going to go easily and that all students are going to admit to needing help.

Covid can move fast and people can suddenly have extremely low oxygen levels with NO shortness of breath to alert them. (This isn't something I'm making up; look up "silent hypoxia" and the NYT article by Dr. Richard Levitan.) Yeah, yeah, college students are adults as people here love to say over and over. But I just foresee the quarantine dorms possibly having cases where a student doesn't recognize how sick he or she really is, and a remote check-in not detecting it.

Young people have been working at the grocery stores and doing food delivery for months. Your child is an adult when he/she goes to college. If you can't let the college
student figure this out you need to keep the student at home and send him/her to community college. I live in a Division I college town with 70,000 students. No college
student wants their parent hovering this much. College students are hanging out with their friends and college students can check in with the student health center if they have symptoms. In college there is no one that "checks in on students daily." College students are adults and independent.

[Anonymous]

If college student is that sick they will be referred to the local emergency room.

Lady, you need to keep your kid at home in his/her bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they put the sick student in the Covid dorm what will they do with the roommate or other friends? You can’t put students that were exposed but not sick with sick people. You can’t lock them in like the fiasco of the nursing homes and cruise ships.

Related to this point: What are colleges saying specifically about who is in charge of checking on students who are in these campus quarantine dorms? I want to know who would be in daily contact with those students, how often each day, and how? Will anyone see them in person (maybe a health care professional in PPE?) or will everthing rely just on phone calls, texts and Face Timing? Can all students really be relied on to take temperatures etc. and report symptoms accurately if they want to get out of quarantine? I'm skeptical.

All I'm seeing so far is someone will as Notre Dame says, "check in with these students daily" but if a student is sliding from a positive test into actual symptoms, does the college just wait for the student to say "I need the hospital" himself? I picture some students who would try to tough things out and not admit to how sick they feel, and if no one lays eyes on them in person but just "ensures they have access to a delivery service" and a once-daily remote check-in -- I think the colleges are being very trusting that quarantining students is going to go easily and that all students are going to admit to needing help.

Covid can move fast and people can suddenly have extremely low oxygen levels with NO shortness of breath to alert them. (This isn't something I'm making up; look up "silent hypoxia" and the NYT article by Dr. Richard Levitan.) Yeah, yeah, college students are adults as people here love to say over and over. But I just foresee the quarantine dorms possibly having cases where a student doesn't recognize how sick he or she really is, and a remote check-in not detecting it.

If that is a concern for your kid (or anyone else’s) — they need to go to community college and live at home.

[Anonymous]

If they quarantine a student to a Covid dorm then the university is responsible for checking on them. A student can’t be isolated alone in a room with no one checking on them. All these people saying nasty things are not medical professionals and don’t understand that anyone can take a turn for the worse rapidly. If a student is isolated by themselves then someone is responsible for their welfare.

[Anonymous]

Oberlin is reserving their hotel for Covid positive students

[Anonymous]

My kid’s college is still working out their residential plan. However, if my child was symptomatic, I would likely make the trip to pick him up. Yes, that would expose all of us, but we did it with the flu last year and we were fortunate that no one else got it. I would be willing to take that risk to make sure that he had the care he needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid’s college is still working out their residential plan. However, if my child was symptomatic, I would likely make the trip to pick him up. Yes, that would expose all of us, but we did it with the flu last year and we were fortunate that no one else got it. I would be willing to take that risk to make sure that he had the care he needed.

How old are you? You do realize that unless your child has underlying conditions, he will be fine. If you are exposed, however, it could be a totally different story.

[Anonymous]

If my kid was symptomatic, I would pick him up too. I am a nurse practitioner and have taken care of COVID patients. Many families have a positive member without spreading to the rest of the family. It can be done.