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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they put the sick student in the Covid dorm what will they do with the roommate or other friends? You can’t put students that were exposed but not sick with sick people. [b]You can’t lock them in like the fiasco of the nursing homes and cruise ships[/b]. [/quote]

Related to this point: What are colleges saying specifically about [b]who[/b] is in charge of checking on students who are in these campus quarantine dorms? I want to know who would be in daily contact with those students, how often each day, and how? Will anyone see them in person (maybe a health care professional in PPE?) or will everthing rely just on phone calls, texts and Face Timing? Can all students really be relied on to take temperatures etc. and report symptoms accurately if they want to get out of quarantine? I'm skeptical.

All I'm seeing so far is someone will as Notre Dame says, "check in with these students daily" but if a student is sliding from a positive test into actual symptoms, does the college just wait for the student to say "I need the hospital" himself? I picture some students who would try to tough things out and not admit to how sick they feel, and if no one lays eyes on them in person but just "ensures they have access to a delivery service" and a once-daily remote check-in -- I think the colleges are being very trusting that quarantining students is going to go easily and that all students are going to admit to needing help.

Covid can move fast and people can suddenly have extremely low oxygen levels with NO shortness of breath to alert them. (This isn't something I'm making up; look up "silent hypoxia" and the NYT article by Dr. Richard Levitan.) Yeah, yeah, college students are adults as people here love to say over and over. But I just foresee the quarantine dorms possibly having cases where a student doesn't recognize how sick he or she really is, and a remote check-in not detecting it. [/quote]

Young people have been working at the grocery stores and doing food delivery for months.  Your child is an adult when he/she goes to college.  If you can't let the college
student figure this out you need to keep the student at home and send him/her to community college.  I live in a Division I college town with 70,000 students. No college
student wants their parent hovering this much. College students are hanging out with their friends and college students can check in with the student health center if they have symptoms.  In college there is no one that "checks in on students daily."  College students are adults and independent.[/quote]

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