JMU Sending Students Home
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Anonymous
A lot of colleges used self administered saliva tests that had to be done with a provider over zoom. The administration of those requires a lot less accuracy. |
Anonymous
Yes, they are. But, what else are they supposed to do? Do they have the facilities, hospitals to take care of the students? No. Did they make any field hospitals? No. So, what? Lock them up and see who survives? Make two daily phone calls to quarantined ill students? Who can't tell if they have no oxygen? While all of us at home are mature adults and know to go to the hospital and we all know that young adults have very little common sense or a sense of how bad things are? When our kids might need to be in a hospital but are scared and told to stay in, lest they infect someone? Is that the price you are ok to pay? Young people die from it too. I am sure that without meds and care some of them need, many more will die than would happen otherwise. I will be taking my kid home if she falls sick. How callous can you get? |
Anonymous
| What a cluster f&%$! Administration should be fired. |
Anonymous
I am sure you are ok with doing the same if is was your kid? Waiting for a phone call, God forbid while you child is alone and possibly dying? |
Anonymous
| What is this herd immunity everyone here is talking about? I am no a virologist, but are we not having peopel reinfected? |
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OK - here's what I would do if I was running the school.
a) If your kid tests positive....he/she must quarantine for 14 days AT HOME if within 3-4 hrs drive. All others must quarantine on campus, hotel, etc. b) If your kid has Covid symptoms and tests positive...he/she MUST GO HOME for treatment at home. ALL STUDENTS MUST BE DIRECTED TO GET TESTED -- ON THEIR OWN/PARENTS DIME!! ALL STUDENTS CAUGHT VIOLATING COVID PROTOCOLS -- Suspended and Sent home! Violating COVID protocol should be treated same as violating the honor code/cheating on test. Is this perfect? No....but this way...the students who test negative and follow protocol get to stay on campus. |
Anonymous
FYI, VA has asymptomatic testing with a 48 hour turnaround right now. Adults can go through an urgent care or CVS. Literally book an appointment at a CVS medication pickup drive through online. It’s. a little harder for minors. My minor child was in a hotspot state this summer. Her pediatrician is not doing asymptomatic testing for kids without a known exposure. But they referred me to PM Pediatrics, which is. I did a five minute telehealth appointment on my iPad. Explained to the MD my child had been in a hotspot, but not directly exposed, that we know of and we wanted to protect the family and the community (to the extent a parent could be exposed). We got a same day appointment 10 minutes from my house. They have multiple locations in NOVA. In and out in under 15 minutes, very nice staff, no one in the waiting room. Less than 2 day turnaround. They said they were running 5-6 days in July, but are now back down to under 48 hours. Consultation and test were free with my federal health insurance. |
Anonymous
| There goes New Jersey’s low case count |
Anonymous
So did other large school like Purdue. Which, honestly, I don’t get. My DD’s friend is a Purdue freshman. She was assigned a virtual waiting room 2 weeks before coming to campus. They gave her directions to administer the test and watched and she mailed it in. Seems like a good plan. Except— how is a test from 2 weeks, or even one week before move in useful. DD’s friend kept working for a week after testing, and was hanging out with friends and her boyfriend before leaving. A kid who is positive 2 weeks out I’d likely fine when school starts. A kid who is negative has a lot of time to have goodbye parties and be in crowds. It seems like all the mail in tests do is give kids a false sense of security. But maybe there is a benefit? I’m seriously asking. They have the tests to administer, and DD’s friend was cleared about 3 days after she sent her sample in overnight. So, they clearly that the ability to process the tests. Why not test on arrival? My DD tested before move in and was in quarantine for the 48 hours it took to be cleared. Kids from hotspots were given a second test 5-7 days after arrival. Plus they are surveillance testing. To hat makes more sense to me. |
Anonymous
My DC1 is at a SLAC where the nurse did the swab up the nose far enough to touch his brain. They administered about 2500 tests to faculty, staff and students and got 6 positives— .2% positivity. They are now doing asymptomatic surveillance testing and reported 600 tests with no cases. I think affluent white kids of the type that go to WM or a SLAC just aren’t in the communities being hardest hit. |
Anonymous
The test kits for these schools were a throat swab. GMU is not primarily affluent kids using the same test kits and they have 7500 students living on campus (density reduced from 9k) and reporting virtually no cases yet. W&M only has freshman on campus until 9/8 so that may be a difference. GMU just switched testing protocol to not self-administered so we'll see. |
Anonymous
Out of a few hundred college students with coronavirus, do you know how many would need to be hospitalized, based on a wealth of data? Less than one. So calm down. Field hospitals? If you are this anxious, not to memtion misinformed, you should have kept your kid home. |
Anonymous
And this is why you are not an administrator. If a kid is sent home, they will infect their family, some of whom are in a high risk groups. |