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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If things fall apart for any school in the fall, why so much hope for an in person spring? Honestly trying to figure that one out though I want it to be true. January is a more sick time of year in general and the vaccine probably won’t be available for all by then when colleges would have to go through this very expensive and arduous process all over again. What exactly are hopes being pinned on? The virus goes away?[/quote]

My hope, perhaps irrational, is that the schools figure a bit more out what tends to lead to outbreaks in their particular setting, manage some of the unexpected stress points, figure out how to better support students' social lives under these conditions etc.  Schools don't typically start until the latter half of January--maybe they tilt the spring semester a little later Feb-late May?  And a part of me hopes that even if there isn't sufficient vaccine production at that point, there will be massive new kind of  "3.5" phase vaccine trials at universities since it's an easy place to administer and monitor vaccines in a relatively healthy population and they can monitor effectiveness more systematically (since most people students would encounter would also be vaccinated).  And maybe treatments will be even more well-established so the mortality rate goes down further.  That's my naive wishful thinking though.  You've got to have some hope.[/quote]

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