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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, come on.  This isn’t hard. We need the kids spread out.  Not all living in the same small area. There is no way the hospital in most college towns could handle that many cases. [/quote]

Except those kids are at low risk to themselves and each other.  It is their role as carrier to adults that is a problem.  I agree with PP that this was a liability CYA.  This did nothing to help the United States fight a pandemic.[/quote]

You might wanna catch up on the news, PP.

Kids get it, too.[/quote]

I'm a professor. I got an email on March 11 from a student who had missed a deadline because she was really sick. She described her symptoms as a high fever, horrible headaches, chest pain, and severe congestion. She was diagnosed with pneumonia at the time. She said heavily mediated and that she had been in and out of consciousness. I replied to the email giving her an extension and didn't connect her symptoms to COVID-19. But I read back over her email last night and I almost guarantee that's what she had. I am going to follow up with her to see how she's doing now.

Can you imagine if hundreds of kids were to get as sick as she described, with limited resources at the health center and potentially far away from family? The two most severe illnesses I had in my life were contracted while I was in college. It was horrible to be hours from home with no one to take care of me other than friends who had their own stuff going on (and were trying not to catch it from me). College campuses are petri dishes. I would not have wanted to teach on campus if we hadn't closed. 
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