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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now. [/quote]

[b]Someone tracks the daily status from the college dashboards and makes estimates of the percentage that are positive from the testing data.  For UVA, it is increasing, but certainly not to the level of Radford, JMU, and VT yet.  UVA is estimated at 4.2% of population positive vs. 33% at Radford, 28% at JMU, and 11.2% at VT.  The other Virginia schools seem to be doing better at this point.  [/b]

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html[/quote]

GMU has done very well.[/quote]

It’s mainly a commuter school so not apples to apples. [/quote]

[b]Go back to 1990, when this was true. Thanks. [/quote][/b] +1

Honestly, some people are so ill-educated on this forum.  Carneigie reclassified GMU to a full residential college 12 years ago.  Pre-Covid all freshman are required to live in dorms.  [b]GMU is now the largest research university in the Commonwealth of VIrginia[/b].  From wiki:  "George Mason University, an institution dedicated to research of consequence, hosts $149 million in sponsored research projects annually, as of 2019.[113] In 2016, Mason was classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education among the U.S. universities that receive the most research funding and award research/scholarship doctorates.[114] Mason moved into this classification based on a review of its 2013–2014 data that was performed by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University.[115]

The research is focused on health, sustainability and security. In health, researchers focus is on wellness, disease prevention, advanced diagnostics and biomedical analytics. Sustainability research examines climate change, natural disaster forecasting, and risk assessment. Mason's security experts study domestic and international security as well as cyber security.[116]"[/quote]

VT, UVA, and VCU do more research (a lot of it medical in the case of UVA and VCU) than GMU.  You can see totals on the National Science Foundation website.[/quote]

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