University of Alabama COVID Cases Down 70% Since National Championship Game
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Anonymous
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Just thought the "keep college kids locked in their dorm rooms until the coronavirus has been eradicated from the planet" crowd might be interested in knowing that exactly one month after the Alabama football national championship and ensuing mass celebration in Tuscaloosa, in which, judging from the pictures, at least 90% of the participants were maskless, COVID cases on campus have DROPPED by 70%.
https://twitter.com/UofAlabama/status/1360350671795597318 It's time for every school to scrap their insane, draconian restrictions and let this generation have a real college experience, not a four-year prison sentence where leaving your dorm room for anything other than a COVID test is verboten. I'm looking at you, UMass Amherst and UC-Berkeley. Also, for anyone looking to go OOS but not willing or able to pay OOS tuition or the cost of a private, Alabama still has some of the best OOS scholarships in the nation, and you don't necessarily need world-beater stats to qualify for them. My kid starts in August with almost a full ride and is counting down the days. Roll Tide! |
Anonymous
| Do you really think a reasonable post will have any influence with the anti-science Nazi-like DCUM ninnies? Dream on. |
Anonymous
| What's their testing strategy? |
Anonymous
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904 tests at main campus. They have 38,000 students.
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Anonymous
| I am really impressed at how incredibly savvy the University of Alabama has been with merit scholarships and recruiting strong students. I think their profile is definitely on the rise. I have been to the campus a few times, and it's definitely a very fun and typical "college" experience. |
Anonymous
| Early herd immunity. The south decided to roll with covid and now is out the other side. |
Anonymous
| If only it wasn’t so ass-backward... |
Anonymous
| Sounds really irresponsible. |
Anonymous
You know what. Good for you and good for your kid. They are going to have an awesome time. Please warn about alcohol though. It can get pretty out of hand. Alabama showed that they were right to just push through all the bad press. Looks like those kids had a good year all things considered. |
Anonymous
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My friend’s kid goes there. Her roommate got sick with all the Covid symptoms, and knew it was Covid because her friends had tested positive. She told my friend’s daughter (her roommate) that she was not going to test because she didn’t want to have to quarantine and then just went about her life, going to parties etc.
So yeah. |
Anonymous
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My daughter went to Alabama, and all things considered had a very good experience and is now working in her dream job. Oh, and now she also has the $75k+ that we saved for her undergrad but didn't use to with as she pleases. Win win!
Yes you will find some..ahh...interesting folks at Bama but she was in the honors program as well as the band and really threw herself into both of those things so really had no issue finding "her people". |
Anonymous
That’s 904 tests administered in the first 11 days of February. They did 7,648 “re-entry” test at the beginning of the semester at the main campus with a 1.11% positivity rate. Out of the 904 current tests, there were 24 positives (2.88%). By the way, the national stories of high case #s from the fall misrepresented the situation in Tuscaloosa. A huge # of the cases being counted were from medical faculty and staff at UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, which is the biggest treatment hospital for severe covid cases in the state, and dated back to the spring. Here’s the dashboard. https://uasystem.edu/covid-19/dashboard |
Anonymous
| Ahhhhhh, no, hard pass. |
Anonymous
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1) WINTER BREAK
2) Nationally numbers are down 60% since the second week in Jan You are a fool |
Anonymous
wow! My DC’s school tests students twice a week. |