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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well some of you wanted to see how thing would look after opening up and after the holiday weekend.  They went back to in person classes on September 2.  I would say ND has overall handled this extremely well considering the initial spike in cases.  Rather than just shut down like the other universities, they rose to the occasion.  Proud of this university's leadership and of the students.  Let's hope these cases continue to stay low even after the first football weekend this past Saturday.  My son told me there were not many parties that he was aware of and that most were hanging out on Library Lawn by the fire tables.  Notre Dame is beating COVID.

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This is really good news and I hope they serve as a model for other schools![/quote]

I'm sorry but this is not beating covid yet.  The curve "looks" good the way they present it because they, but the numbers are ticking back up.  Having  more than 1-3 cases a day is a red flag in a congregate setting.  They've had 14, 8 , 7 etc of late.  They are talking it up, but they still look worse than other similar institutions--many of whom are open.[/quote]

Not sure what you are trying to say, but there will be cases.  It is just a matter of keeping them low enough as to not overwhelm the COVID response staff or the isolation and quarantine facilities.[/quote]

No, that was the initial thinking --"flatten the curve" and the like.  Now that we know the level of contagiousness, morbidity and mortality rate, people are more focused on stopping the spread further beyond just not overwhelming hospitals.  The idea being that if you get a certain level of spread in a congregate setting it will set off a lot of chains of spreads in a variety of directions.  There are many institutions that didn't have an outbreak like ND, are open, and don't have as many cases.  The way they are representing their data--with the highest day of testing setting the x axis makes a day with 14 cases look like nothing--but it's not nothing. Compare their data with other similarly resourced schools that are open and you'll see.  They are doing better than they were but not good comparatively.[/quote]

We that is exactly what the PP was trying to communicate.  With the school starting off with such a surge of cases and the president ready to send students home until the St. Joseph's County health officer convinced him otherwise.  And they were successful.  This is manageable as is.  Although ND has its shares of scholarly students, there is definitely a drinking culture.  I believe students are working hard to do the right thing.  There are still parties of course.  What other school had a spike like that and recovered so quickly and completely.  None.[/quote]

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