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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schools should just stay open. They should have spent time expanding their on campus health centers for respond  24/7 and added some isolation rooms monitored by health staff for very sick patients to stay in until they could be transferred to a hospital. It appears by all accounts that college age students become ill with less severity and yes the illness seems in line with flu or pneumonia or mono - for this age group. Anyone of those illnesses just like Covid can be more severe and turn deadly but it’s the exception and not the rule.[/quote]

For the 11 billionth time it isn’t about the students. It is about all the staff who work at those colleges - who the college is obligated to provide with a reasonably safe workplace. It is also about the health care workers. The US hospital system isn’t built for surges in severe respiratory cases. It would be economically stupid to maintain that — so now we have to try and manage the caseload.

As for campuses most people with COVId take care of themselves. At home. Schools don’t run infirmaries and don’t need to start running them for people with highly infectious respiratory diseases. Students need to isolate, use a pulse oximeter and have food dropped off. The student health center should do a telehealth visit dailyit escalates they head to the hospital.

If you or your student can’t handle that, take a leave.

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It’s also about PR. They don’t want to be the school on the news with an outbreak and when they are, they know everyone is watching to see what they do. [/quote]

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