Covid at UVA

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Anonymous wrote:She just said, only half are vaccinated.

They could also avoid large indoor parties, when they have the option of socializing outdoors. Common sense stuff.

Not "soul crushing."

Half the students are vaccined? How is that possible?

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/

You need to get outside your bubble more.

You need to work on your reading comprehension. The "bubble" being discussed is a university where students are required to be vaccinated, so a 50% vaccination rate would be quite remarkable. Do you understand what mandatory means?

[Anonymous]

PP used that statistic in relation to "college-aged kids" (not UVA students).

Look it up, Mr. Reading Comprehension.

[Anonymous]

FWIW DD is a sophomore. She and her two roommates woke up with sore throat, cough, runny nose, classic breakthrough symptoms. They were all negative and said that there are a lot of people sick with non-covid respiratory viruses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She just said, only half are vaccinated.

They could also avoid large indoor parties, when they have the option of socializing outdoors. Common sense stuff.

Not "soul crushing."

Half the students are vaccinated? How is that possible?

I am assuming they mean 50% of college students all around the country. At UVA the percentage is upwards of 97%

Sounds like the OP and some others are just trolls or people mad that college football is being allowed.

Most of us have told our college kids to wear masks inside, avoid large indoor crowds, and get tested if symptomatic. Beyond that, complaining about the behavior of others and starting rumors about "superspreader events" without evidence is neither productive nor healthy. If OP's DD feels unsafe, perhaps she have her DD head home or write to UVA leadership instead of complaining in this forum.

+1 The assumption that the majority of our students are running around creating havoc is false and hyperbolic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP used that statistic in relation to "college-aged kids" (not UVA students).

Look it up, Mr. Reading Comprehension.

This discussion is about UVA students and the parents who have allegedly not taught their kids how to be responsible citizens. This discussion is different when applied to an student body where vaccinations aren't required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP who said, "Everyone who has been willing to get vaccinated has done so," is just plain wrong.


On August 24, it was announced that:

<<On average, about 450,000 Americans a day are getting their first jab, up from 260,000 a little more than a month ago, Jeff Zients, the White House Covid-19 Response Team coordinator.>>

He was probably extrapolating from his little bubble (or trusting his biased brain instead of data).

The rates have continued to rise in September....but just under 50% of college-aged kids are vaccinated.

College mandates and well informed parents who raised children to care about the greater good could make a huge dent in that.

Im the PP who said that. It should’ve said people who wanted to get vaxed have already done so. I’d bet the increase in numbers is not because people want to get the vax, but have been required to by their school or employer. Im sure some of the hesitant have changed their mind because of Delta, but I doubt that’s a large percentage. But at this point, anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated is hesitant for one reason or another. They have been given more than enough time.

[Anonymous]

This is what many parents are worried about:

"This is the fifth shots fired report in the last three weeks — multiple shots were fired behind the Standard Apartment complex Aug. 21, while another incident was reported on Patton St., and a third near Venable Elementary last Thursday."

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2021/09/shots-fired-incident-reported-at-8th-st-nw-and-page-st

[Anonymous]

Just thought it would be good to update on this somewhat fear mongering post. My kids are at UVA and everyone is sick, and kids have by and large been good about going to the doc to get tested. They are by and large coming negative which is supported by their now 1.18% positivity rate which is QUITE low I think we can all agree. After an initial spike around week 2-3 of school, it seems to have fallen off quite a bit, as was predicted.

My DD has been sick for three weeks, and now is diagnosed with a sinus infection. Ugh, it would sure be nice to be healthy at school but at least it's not Covid!

[Anonymous]

This is a concern for UVA parents:

"So far this year, there have been more than 250 shots fired incidents in the city. It is possible that this year will post double the number of shots fired incidents that were reported in all of 2020."

https://www.cbs19news.com/story/44773608/uva-parents-terrified-over-rise-in-shootings-near-grounds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just thought it would be good to update on this somewhat fear mongering post. My kids are at UVA and everyone is sick, and kids have by and large been good about going to the doc to get tested. They are by and large coming negative which is supported by their now 1.18% positivity rate which is QUITE low I think we can all agree. After an initial spike around week 2-3 of school, it seems to have fallen off quite a bit, as was predicted.

My DD has been sick for three weeks, and now is diagnosed with a sinus infection. Ugh, it would sure be nice to be healthy at school but at least it's not Covid!

Thanks PP. I hope your DD is better soon. We had a similar experience with sickness this summer, with my kids and almost every teen we know getting cold-like symptoms. All were tested for COVID, some more than once, and every single one was negative. The most common positive was strep, which our doctor said she was seeing in unprecedented numbers for the summer.

None of us really knows what happens next with the pandemic, but at least there are signs that the virus is not spreading uncontrollably in highly vaccinated communities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a concern for UVA parents:

"So far this year, there have been more than 250 shots fired incidents in the city. It is possible that this year will post double the number of shots fired incidents that were reported in all of 2020."

https://www.cbs19news.com/story/44773608/uva-parents-terrified-over-rise-in-shootings-near-grounds

I think you already posted this which is not the subject of the thread, not sure why you are posting it here. I am of course very concerned particular about where they will live since this is happening near popular student apartments but I will say, things seems to have improved in the last week at least with very noticeable police presence in these areas which border the grounds. Let's hope it all comes under better control soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just thought it would be good to update on this somewhat fear mongering post. My kids are at UVA and everyone is sick, and kids have by and large been good about going to the doc to get tested. They are by and large coming negative which is supported by their now 1.18% positivity rate which is QUITE low I think we can all agree. After an initial spike around week 2-3 of school, it seems to have fallen off quite a bit, as was predicted.

My DD has been sick for three weeks, and now is diagnosed with a sinus infection. Ugh, it would sure be nice to be healthy at school but at least it's not Covid!

Interesting that most of the positive cases are faculty/staff, and not students. Yesterday’s results show one student positive, and ten faculty/staff positives. Students were required to be vaccinated, but staff only encouraged. That’s a horribly unfair double standard, and I think the high number of positive employees shows they should be subject to the mandate as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of these kids are vaccinated by now. Delta is going to infect some, no matter what. They'll be sick and get over it. Life goes on, OP.

Some will die, some will have shortened lives, some will have chronic conditions and some will not be able to have families or hold a job. In the end, a lot of family lines will die off and human population will be significantly culled. It will be great for the Earth.

highly unlikely. Maybe if they had some other health issues going on.

Last school year 2 kids from my kid's college killed themselves by jumping off a tall building (two separte incidents, several weeks apart.) ZERO died of Covid. I'm far more concerned about the mental health of our young adults than Covid.

Can you acknowledge, somewhere in the echoing chamber of your skull, that contagious airborne diseases are a community risk, and we must team up to protect our most vulnerable? This includes vaccinated people who have waning immunity, the elderly who cannot mount a sufficient immune response despite multiple shots, the medically fragile, those who are allergic to a component of the vaccine and those who cannot yet receive a shot because they are in chemo. It also includes some children.

And when hospitals are overwhelmed, the increased mortality risk reaches EVERYONE, EVEN YOU. People die from easily-treated injuries or illnesses that would in normal times not have sealed their fate! This is happening all over the high-Covid states, in places where there are no ICU beds, or personnel is so beaten down they end up making mistakes.

It's one thing to declare that you are not a team player and you prefer having half a million excess American deaths every year from Covid for the foreseeable future, just so you can lead a normal life (flu kllls 30-50K a year).

It's quite another to say and do silly things without realizing exactly what the consequences are to your community and your country.

+1,000 to the bold. But you and I are lone voices on threads like this one. There are so many people who don't know and do not care how disease transmission works, nor do they care about community risk, and their response to the vulnerable is to tell them to stay home forever. They also seem to insist that covid is pretty much like the flu now, endemic and not that big a deal. They say people like you and me are "hysterical" and should "go live the basement" etc. They are the reason the pandemic has gone on and on, and the reason more will die or suffer long covid. But PP in the bold -- you ARE right.

Wrong. This pandemic isn't ending until we reach herd immunity. Period. Everyone who has been willing to get vaccinated has done so. We need the rest to acquire natural immunity. Of course, we don't want hospitals to be overwhelmed, so we need to track that and respond accordingly. The sooner we reach herd immunity, the better for everyone - especially the vulnerable. So why prolong it? I'm hoping that once the vaccine is approved for under 12, we will stop fretting about cases, especially among the vaccinated.

+1 The pandemic has not ended because of people who are eligible but refuse to get vaccinated. That's it. No one is denying you can get Covid if you're vaccinated, but it is highly unlikely will end up dead or in a hospital.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is happening at all colleges and no one is getting tested because they don’t want to miss class and fail out.

This is absolutely not true. Smaller colleges are testing every kid and every staffer every week. My kid's college is doing this. My younger kid's college is doing this periodically, ie random tests. They are isolating every kid who tests positive and all contacts. They take it very seriously. Fortunately no outbreaks, thank God, but a few isolated cases. Huge universities are having a harder time doing this because of numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, no stopping it now. We failed as a country.

Many more people will die. It will mutate some time soon. College football games major super spreaders, because the Delta doesn't care.

Thank you Trumpers this is all on you. We will never forget your selfishness.

Really? So you're saying the masses of kids at football games - at all universities - are "Trumpers"? No, sorry. Get a clue.

You get a clue.

This did not have to be.

This is the Trumpers fault. No masks really?? Non invasive. No vaccines but take Horse and cow meds. Really?

In 2020 we could have controlled this, but no Trumpers and their "freedoms".

Trumpers are destroying our country. Trumpers are complete sub humans.

Natural selection is killing off a lot of these idiots who refuse to get vaccinated and refuse to wear masks. These are the people filling the hospitals and dying of covid. Idiots.