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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would they close?  Right now, sending college students home to spread virus to their parents is the stupidest thing anyone could do.  Keep all of the low-risk people together and away from the high-risk people.

'Bama seems to have done a good job of testing students, and it seems as though they're being punished for being transparent.  PP is right -- everyone should be hoping they succeed.

Just a couple of points:   The # of cases is for the entire Alabama system, not just the Tuscaloosa campus, so it covers over 40,000 students, including the UAB Medical School and hospital. The 1,400 number that is being tossed around includes all cases since January.

https://www.uab.edu/news/campus/item/11515-new-york-times-reports-misleading-data-of-high-covid-19-cases-at-uab-in-story-about-colleges-universities

In our university/non-clinical enterprise, UAB is aware of 148 students (0.67% of our student body) and 91 faculty and staff (1.5% of that total population) who tested positive in 2020. For the non-clinical enterprise, this is a total of 239 total positive cases this year.

UAB’s clinical enterprise – which includes UAB Medicine, more than 17,500 employees and one of the nation’s largest hospitals, and welcomes more than 1.6 million patient visits a year – has provided vital healthcare services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes our healthcare providers on the frontlines who have cared for more than 1,100 hospitalized COVID-positive patients, as well as additional COVID-positive patients cared for in out-patient, ambulatory settings. This year, 733 faculty and staff in the clinical enterprise (4.1% of 17,500 total clinical enterprise employee population) have tested positive for COVID-19. 679 clinical enterprise employees have completed COVID-19 protocols and cleared to return to work.

https://uasystem.edu/covid-19-dashboard/

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I wonder what Harvard’s case numbers would look like if they reported all of the cases from the Medical School and associated teaching hospitals since January? [/quote]

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