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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]222 positive

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-covid-cases-222-off-campus-party/[/quote]

How many in hospital? Safe bet 0. How many are even showing symptoms? Safe bet &lt;5, if not 0 as well. Otherwise we'd know both of these and they'd be the lede. &quot;Hospitals in South Bend overrun with Catholic college students!&quot;  :roll: [/quote]

Repeating for the dullards in the back:

Everyone agrees that teens and young adults are not usually very severely affected by this virus (although they can have a severe case and be in need of hospitalization.)  They aren't the at risk demographic.

The risk to our communities is when COVID spreads in the community, uncontrolled, and then affects the larger community.  The professors, the custodians, the health care workers, the food service workers.  The Starbucks worker (or the Starbucks customers).  The librarian assistant.  They get infected and then the illness sprads in the rest of the community -- to their neighbors, grandparents, dental hygenists.

The rest of the world has figured out that, although this virus moves slowly, if left to spread, it will create monuental chaos in a community in about 6-8 weeks.   To stop that, communities with a major outbreak need to move to a stay at home order.

So uncontrolled spread in a campus setting needs to be stopped so the rest of the community can be spared the need for a stay at home order (and illness and death among its older members).

I'm really glad that there aren't a ton of college aged kids needing hospitalization, and would only even expect about 5% maximum of this age group to need to be seen in an ER.   Even then the need for hospital care doesn't happen right away, but more after 2 weeks.

But need for hospitalization is a late indicator of an outbreak.  And the most important thing to dealing with COVID is to NOT HAVE ANY OUTBREAKS.[/quote]

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