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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She's right -- No medical doctors on these ND Covid committees:

https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/leadership-teams/medical-health-sub-committee/

https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/leadership-teams/operations-reopening-sub-committee/
 [/quote]

These are internal committees.  ND does not have a medical school so of course there aren't doctors on them.  They have hired extensive medical professional consultants to work with the committees.[/quote]

Exactly.  ND has been working with the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins to devise the plans.  That said, it is has not gone well.  I am VERY worried about my son who is there right now and currently healthy.  I do not want him to end up in one of the isolation units as they are not well staffed for the influx of cases.  My prediction is he will be on a plane home by next week.

Very upsetting and disappointing.[/quote]

Just because they worked with Hopkins and the Cleveland Clinic doesn't mean ND took all of their advice. JHU is not doing anything onlien this fall and told its students not to come to Baltimore.

No regular weekly or biweekly asymptomatic testing and full isolation / quarantine = outbreaks. It is true that outbreaks puts faculty and staff at far greater risk of illness than students but as an employer they cannot take that risk. They also should monitor whether they will be overburdening local hospital capacity.

These universities do not operate in a vacuum, expecting any community to fully comply with social distancing is foolish (look at nearly ever communty around the country). People who thought this fall would not be a grim experience for students is insane.

This was the year to take a gap year, especially if you are first year student.[/quote]

I am very sorry for the ND student and his mom, that is upsetting.  FWIW, the hospital is not at all overwhelmed with COVID cases from ND.  I live in SB and one of my friends is an administrator at one of the local hospitals.  Hospitalized COVID cases are well below capacity of the existing COVID wards, and more wards can be transitioned to COVID wards as needed.  [/quote]

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