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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is very interesting that some schools are having difficulty with cases while others have had so few. It would be an interesting study of the whys. [/quote]

Why? Three words: Off campus living. It encourages gatherings, from basic day to day contacts to parties. It requires students to get to grocery stores at a minimum since they feed themselves at least some of the time. It puts them outside the bounds of campuses where there might be a shot at peer pressure and administration pressure to stay masked and distanced.

Yes, of course students who live on campus can find ways to gather without masks or distancing there on campus. But being confined to campus with strict policies about precautions can help.

And there's a fourth word: Testing. Lots of it, required, with severe consequences for missing tests, and NOT just for symptomatic students. There has to be a solid plan for what happens with a positive test and there need to be enough spaces for serious quarantine, preferably ON campus.

Large universities and/or colleges and universities with high or even just substantial proportions of off-campus dwellers, combined with inadequate amounts of asymptomatic testing, are probably screwed, unfortunately, unless they have an unusually mature and cohesive student body. 
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