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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outbreaks ranging from significant to huge at colleges in IA, CA, MS, AL, NC.

Students and faculty affected.  The virus is spreading fairly quickly once campuses open.  Most transmission is happening off campus, but once transmitted to dozens or hundreds of students, they carry it back on campus and infect staff.  Many schools are quarantining, the question is how big do the outbreaks have to be before these schools close campus and revert to distance learning.  And how well will the staff and schools transition from in-person classes to remote classes.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/25/college-coronavirus-cases/[/url]

Ugh, just found this article that says a NYT survey of more than 1500 colleges and universities reveal at least 26K cases of coronavirus and 64 deaths.  Colleges in at least 15 states have reported outbreaks since the start of school this year alone.

[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/26/more-than-25000-cases-on-us-campuses-here-are-the-latest-college-coronavirus-updates/#614f9f663cbb[/url][/quote]

Two things:

It says “since the pandemic began”, so not all new cases. 
Also, it doesn’t say out of how many people total. If avg total population of 5K each, that’s $7.5M total and a 0.3% positivity rate, less than general population.  I’d much prefer the total picture.

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Well, we'd all prefer a total picture but we have no national tracking system with consistent ways of reporting.  And nearly all the cases are new since most colleges closed down right after spring break and didn't have on-campus testing.  These are also the numbers before many schools have even been back at all or that long.  You can't think about positivity rates when the people have only been living there two weeks.[/quote]

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