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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hampshire college let 100 percent of students back in August with ZERO reported Covid

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2020/09/tests-shows-no-covid-19-cases-at-amherst-college-hampshire-college-with-five-reported-at-umass.html%3foutputType=amp[/quote]

They had to show evidence of a negative Covid test and are regularly tested on campus. Like several other colleges, they have contracted with the Broad Institute for testing and Covid control. As far as I know, all the Broad Institute schools are doing well. https://www.broadinstitute.org/covid-19-testing/fall-2020-college-and-university-screening[/quote]

William & Mary has under 10 cases total and everyone is back on campus.  Dartmouth has had 5 cases with students back.  Both are fairly close in size to ND--they have less cases total than ND has on many days in recent weeks.[/quote]

What matters is that the universities that are open are able to stay open relatively safely.  I think ND is doing just that.[/quote]

About 8% of ND students have now gotten Covid since August. [/quote]

Actually it is 5%.  Nobody died.[/quote]

I meant of undergrads--there it's around 7%, so likely a lot more than that. 8% is the lowest reasonable estimate.  I'm not going to get into the whole issue of caring about it mattering if any students have died yet (I hope, hope hope we don't ever get into that situation).  But that's a high enough rate that others off-campus likely have been impacted that aren't tracked in these numbers.  Congregate settings + covid just suck--especially ones where the people then go out and mix with a larger world.  Our NOVA neighborhood right now is flooded with JMU kids coming home, many of them quite sick.  (And I think it's worse that they got sent home--so kudos to ND to keeping the students after the outbreak--but JMU is not a rich school and its capacity was overwhelmed). I think we should really look at what the schools that didn't let outbreaks happen and don't have a handful of cases trickling in each day are doing.[/quote]

Unless an independently funded outside firm is doing the treating and public results reporting for schools, it’s hard to make great comparisons. My guess would that a lot of schools with very low numbers either have many students from low-Covid areas or are fudging the numbers. 
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