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[quote=Anonymous]JMU did not require students test before arriving, did not test them as soon as they arrived, and had no plan to do regular testing of everyone. It said it would only test symptomatic students. By the time you're symptomatic you have already been infectious possibly for quite s few days without knowing it so you've gone around spreading the virus.

Of course this was going to happen there.

Meanwhile my friend is a staffer at a college (not in VA) where they are testing all students every 10 days all semester long, and all staff every 14 days. So far, so good. My own DC at a small college (also not VA) had to send a negative test result from home before coming on campus, was tested immediately on arrival and has been tested twice since that first campus test. Also so far, so good. If a student at either of the colleges tests positive they're immediately escorted to a quarantine dorm already set aside for this.

Smaller schools with the ability to test often and arrangements for quarantine may be able to manage this. Huge schools that decide just to "let it rip," like JMU apparently has, can't manage. At least some other large universities have tried with tests etc. JMU seems appallingly awful re: testing. [/quote]

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