Covid at UVA

[Anonymous]

Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....

GMU - One, but it takes that person an hour to drive through traffic to get to the lightbulb to change it.

[Anonymous]

So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

Not when you take into account they (under normal circumstances) have 33,300 people on campus: 25,000 students; 6,149 Administrators and 3,265 academics. Also, they are engaging in the very expensive task of monitoring waste from the dorms to find cases before symptoms. And they have cleared out the international students housing dorm to allow for 1550 beds should they need it for quarantine. Not one student is yet at the UVA hospital, which is also right there. President Ryan recently limited the size of student meet-ups on campus to no more than five people (6 feet apart); students and off-campus students have been told they should not have visitors or invite anyone to Charlottesville. This will be enforced. And all students will be required to wear masks at all times unless they are in their room, eating, or exercising outdoors or in accordance with the guidelines at one of the on-Grounds IM/Rec facilities. Students have even even been told when exercising, they should always keep a mask on hand in case you run into another person. So I don't know what OP is talking about. I think they are doing as best as they can under very trying and often changing circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....

GMU - One, but it takes that person an hour to drive through traffic to get to the lightbulb to change it.

UVa - 30 or 40. One to do the job, the rest to talk about how awesome the old lightbulb was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....

GMU - One, but it takes that person an hour to drive through traffic to get to the lightbulb to change it.

UVa - 30 or 40. One to do the job, the rest to talk about how awesome the old lightbulb was.

UVA - 30 or 40. One to do the job, and the rest to talk about how much better they are at changing lightbulbs than other schools. And if any schools are obviously better at changing bulbs, then talk about how much more social and well-balanced UVA students are at changing bulbs.

[Anonymous]

Get me the popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

Not when you take into account they (under normal circumstances) have 33,300 people on campus: 25,000 students; 6,149 Administrators and 3,265 academics. Also, they are engaging in the very expensive task of monitoring waste from the dorms to find cases before symptoms. And they have cleared out the international students housing dorm to allow for 1550 beds should they need it for quarantine. Not one student is yet at the UVA hospital, which is also right there. President Ryan recently limited the size of student meet-ups on campus to no more than five people (6 feet apart); students and off-campus students have been told they should not have visitors or invite anyone to Charlottesville. This will be enforced. And all students will be required to wear masks at all times unless they are in their room, eating, or exercising outdoors or in accordance with the guidelines at one of the on-Grounds IM/Rec facilities. Students have even even been told when exercising, they should always keep a mask on hand in case you run into another person. So I don't know what OP is talking about. I think they are doing as best as they can under very trying and often changing circumstances.

Despite your long comment, I'm sure the spike around the 17th-18th was cause for concern which resulted in the new round of increased restrictions you mentioned. There also seems to be some seasonality in UVA testing results, so the next couple of days may be interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

Not when you take into account they (under normal circumstances) have 33,300 people on campus: 25,000 students; 6,149 Administrators and 3,265 academics. Also, they are engaging in the very expensive task of monitoring waste from the dorms to find cases before symptoms. And they have cleared out the international students housing dorm to allow for 1550 beds should they need it for quarantine. Not one student is yet at the UVA hospital, which is also right there. President Ryan recently limited the size of student meet-ups on campus to no more than five people (6 feet apart); students and off-campus students have been told they should not have visitors or invite anyone to Charlottesville. This will be enforced. And all students will be required to wear masks at all times unless they are in their room, eating, or exercising outdoors or in accordance with the guidelines at one of the on-Grounds IM/Rec facilities. Students have even even been told when exercising, they should always keep a mask on hand in case you run into another person. So I don't know what OP is talking about. I think they are doing as best as they can under very trying and often changing circumstances.

Despite your long comment, I'm sure the spike around the 17th-18th was cause for concern which resulted in the new round of increased restrictions you mentioned. There also seems to be some seasonality in UVA testing results, so the next couple of days may be interesting.

You have issues. That post is short for DCUM and accurate. As to the 17 and 18, there was a national spike those days. https://www.google.com/search?q=United+States+cases+of+COVID+sept+17th&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS836US836&oq=U&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l3j69i57j0l2j46l2.2956j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8. See also. https://www.axios.com/state-coronavirus-infection-records-dacd090e-3fa3-4e1b-9aa7-76e1a2690418.html/

And of course there will be "seasonality" in the college results and USA results because we are now moving into flu season and perhaps the second wave. UVA is doing a fine job with trying to let the students back and having choice whether or not to attend class or do virtual. Go pick on another school.

[Anonymous]

I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

I think they are not out of the woods yet. I'll feel a lot better if the uptick that follows this relative few day lull is less than where they were at on Sept 16-18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

I think they are not out of the woods yet. I'll feel a lot better if the uptick that follows this relative few day lull is less than where they were at on Sept 16-18.

There was a national surge then. Why? Labor Day weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

I think they are not out of the woods yet. I'll feel a lot better if the uptick that follows this relative few day lull is less than where they were at on Sept 16-18.

There was a national surge then. Why? Labor Day weekend.

But in Virginia, the numbers are down.