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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a parent of a UVA student who is on campus. We have been told there are upwards of 1,000-1,500 dorm and hotel rooms reserved for quarantine and isolation cases. Those are separated. Also, there is nowhere near 17,000 students in Charlottesville this semester. The percentage on campus has dropped from about 82% expected prior to return to Grounds, to about the mid 60s the week school started, and now some percentage below that as some kids decide to go home because pretty much is everything is closed down or to quarantine after contracting Covid. UVA administration has done a good job, though wastewater testing was delayed for some reason until after a number of confirmed cases were reported in a first-year dorm. Some students Have tried to get tested at student health and have been rejected for not meeting criteria, so they went elsewhere. That was a mistake on UVA’s part and suggested to parents that they may be worried about conserving nasal swab tests. We are still waiting for wide-scale saliva tests to begin, sometime in late September. They started random asymptomatic nasal swab tests, by sending emails to a random students as early as the second week. That did not appear to be the case with wastewater tests, which began later. My student just had their dorm tested by wastewater and then nasal swabs, after infection was found in the former. The jury is still out on whether students should have returned to campus. It was a risky decision that involved careful planning. But history has shown us how uNpredictable pandemics can be. We are testing each week as a bonus. But it’s tough for those kids to not be isolated given so few in-person classes (my students single in-person class was canceled by the professor), threats of suspension for gathering in large groups, and RAs who are overwhelmed and concerned about contracting Covid. There is no right answer, as president Ryan said, to taking either the UVA or the Johns Hopkins approach. These kids are getting pulled late at night after test results come in and Taken by cab to isolation rooms. Not easy for first year students, many of whom don’t have roommates. Many NOVA kids chose to stay home.[/quote]

They put them in a cab?![/quote]

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