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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W&M us doing fine because the students mostly study and hang out in their rooms. [/quote]

Perhaps they are just sensible enough to follow guidelines and realize if they don't follow them, everything goes pear shaped.  (VCU has also done well, particularly given its size.)

It also looks like W&M had done more testing at this point.  They did 3,893 test last week to 2,340 at UVA and W&M has only about a third as many students.

UVA's positive rate isn't close to what Radford or JMU got to, and [b]is actually slightly lower than it was two weeks ago (9% vs 10%).  [/b]

I think the real test for all these schools will when the weather gets cooler and the kids get more and more antsy with the restrictions.

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You think a 9% positivity rate is acceptable?  What are the doing to get that number down?  [b]Notre Dame, which is accused on this forum for "screwing up" is at 1% positivity rate.[/quote][/b]

You are forgetting Notre Dame made national headlines back in August when it began reporting a surge of coronavirus cases after bringing students back to campus, prompting the University to suspend in-person classes for two weeks. Notre Dame resumed in-person classes on Sept. 2 following a decline in cases, with the University’s dashboard reporting an estimated 43 active cases as of Monday.[/quote]

The point here is the Notre Dame has fixed the problem of the surge.  With 12K students plus faculty/staff, 43 active cases is pretty damn good.  You cannot argue that 1% positivity is amazing for a school that started out in a bad place and instead of sending home infected students, they took the appropriate steps.  Why isn't UVA doing that?  The other parent said it is business as usual.  Let's see what the numbers do in the next week.  My prediction is if they don't take steps, they will have a problem.  If you look at Notre Dame's graph, it is very similar to New York's.  Surge at the very beginning which was flattened and remains flat.

UVA has 232 active cases and have had a total of 508 with classes started August 25.  ND has 43 active cases with a total of 698 with classes starting on August 9.  I would say it is a wash, except Notre Dame has it under control now and UVA does not.  Let's see with the coming weeks bring. [/quote]

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