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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You're being obtuse. We are not talking about college students who are "hanging out with their friends." We're talking about what will happen with infected students in quarantine inside specialized dorms they're not supposed to leave, so, no they're not hanging out with anyone. And the reference to someone who checks in on them refers to who checks on students quarantined because they're infected with a contagious virus that can turn serious quickly. You're not keeping up, PP. You'll come back to insist that "young adults done get very sick with Covid," but you need to pay attention to places like Florida and Texas right now where cases are spiking among young adults, to the surprise of the medical community.

The question is what happens when some of these adults do exactly as some adults in the community have done, and fail to recognize how ill they themselves really are? Is it supposed to be due diligence to put a person into a quarantine room and call once a day, and take that persons word for how ill they think they are?

You are pretty naive about the fact that some students will try to tough it out and won't get help before they're really ill.

And you say it's up to college students to "figure this out." No, it's up to colleges to figure out how they can put thousands of people into close quarters living and not have outbreaks. Students have responsibility for behaving appropriately. But your "plan" amounts to "let 'em ride it out in a quarantine room and if they don't pick up the food delivery one day maybe someone'll call someone else to report that...."

Your college town with 70,000 students has a huge interest in keeping that college from becoming the source of infections in the rest of the town, but you seem utterly unconcerned about how well-run student quarantine will or won't be.

All the comments about hovering and helicoptering are typical of DCUM parents who are shrugging off the potential for this virus to break out on a campus. This isn't about "college students are adults, let them handle it or you're an anxious helicopter parent." It's about public health and your fear of asking basic questions. You're so scared of being pegged as hovering parents that you bury your heads in the sand and think colleges' plans are fine without any specifics beyond "there's a quarantine dorm." If I lived in a college town I wouldn't be as blindly trusting as you seem to be. [/quote]

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