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[quote=Anonymous]A Cornell researcher was on CNN last night talking about study that they just did that found that 60% of the university student population has contact at least two steps with each other using just basic campus functions and NOT factoring in any type of socialization.

There is a huge amount of mixing with classes. Plus many universities run at near capacity in classroom space for good portions of Monday -Thursday 10 am to 5pm. They could start earlier around 7am, reduce class meetings time and utilize Fridays and Saturdays but many would still not have enough space to space out the students. The shared bathrooms in dorms and campus buildings barely cover the population now in many places. Older buildings do not have great ventilation and many newer buildings do not have windows that open on floors above the second floor.

Plus Singapore identified the migrant worker dormitories as a super spreading event and those conditions may look worse than campus dorms BUT the close proximity is not far off.

The only approach that seems to be viable is for medical schools in terms of what Harvard is doing. They are keeping 1 st year students online at home and bringing back 2, 3 and 4th year. 3rd and 4th years students are not in classes they are doing rounds and in the hospitals or in research labs. 1st and 2nd year classes are usually large lecture halls with lots of dense material. Students are either in class or in the library/at home re-watching the lectures multiple times to get all the information and studying. As long as they move the lab classes like gross anatomy to the second year much of 1st year can be done at home.  [/quote]

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