I am not into Covid hysteria and when my DD in college got in early February, i figured, great get it over with. She was vaccinated, boosted and generally healthy. Well she breezed through Covid with 1-2 days of not feeling great, but not as bad as she had been with the flu or strep, and then she was fine. Until she was not 10 days later. She texted me in the middle of the night saying she needed to go the hospital as she felt like she was dying. She went to the ER and sure enough diagnosed with pneumonia. 14 days, three doctor visits and one additional ER trip later and she was finally on the mend.

Just saying, it’s not just a cold. Missed a ton of classes which of course sucks too.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. People are still worried about Covid?

Lots of colleges are requiring boosters just to visit. Clearly schools are still ‘worried about Covid’.

Yes they say that but they never check. We just returned from a spring break tour of multiple schools, several of which “required” proof of booster. Except when you get there, they don’t. No marks either. It was pretty great, to tell you the truth.

Anonymous wrote:It is a cold. Stop dramatizing this virus. Enough.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:Cornell is now up to 500 active student cases and 40 faculty only counting those who voluntarily test. They still require masks in classrooms but remove the mandate for the rest of campus recently.

You have to be more pointedly precise for the deniers on here.
That's 500 symptomatic cases in a young healthy population that is 97% vaccinated, 92% boosted, and wearing masks in classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:I would just worry if my college student came home with it for break and, it went through our house even as a cold, we would end up having to cancel Easter plan with a large group including babies and elderly.

I know. Uggg uggg uggg. Every time we think we might be through, the next wave. Uggggg.

I would just worry if my college student came home with it for break and, it went through our house even as a cold, we would end up having to cancel Easter plan with a large group including babies and elderly.

Anonymous wrote:It is a cold. Stop dramatizing this virus. Enough.

Things are much better but you don't need a vax to fend off a cold and a cold won't kill you like this virus did to members of a million american families including mine.

Have some patience. Just because the virus did not cause your family heartache does not mean every student was so fortunate.

Cornell is now up to 500 active student cases and 40 faculty only counting those who voluntarily test. They still require masks in classrooms but remove the mandate for the rest of campus recently.

My dd said there are two kids in her club sport that said they don't plan to get vaccinated at all, so there's that. Our whole family got the vaccine/boosters ASAP once we became eligible so we haven't paid much attention to vaccinate mandates.

This is at a big state school in the mid-atlantic.

Anonymous wrote:It is a cold. Stop dramatizing this virus. Enough.

Since Cornell no longer requires testing, I would assume that kids with only a cold do not voluntarily test because they do not want to miss class. I assume only the actually sick test to get some documentation if they need to reschedule tests etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no! And why Cornell again? Isn’t the campus spacious?

And they mandated the Covid shot.

I would guess they also mandated boosters?

Yes

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. People are still worried about Covid?

Lots of colleges are requiring boosters just to visit. Clearly schools are still ‘worried about Covid’.

It is a cold. Stop dramatizing this virus. Enough.

GW still requires testin

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids are refusing to get tested on campus because a lot of the colleges have draconian measures. This is my way of saying it is absolutely impossible to know what the Covid rate is on any campus because none of them are requiring testing anymore, the kids who get tested are The ones who choose to do so.

A lot of schools aren’t hosting quarantine dorms anymore, so if the school finds out you’re positive your expected to go find accommodations to quarantine. There is no way most college kids can afford to find that.

Yep. And the cases are so mild that it's really no worse than a cold-and prior to covid college students went to class with a cold and thought nothing of it.

That's not universally true. My DC (20s, so a little older than a college student but not much) has Covid and it's definitely more than a cold and he would not be going to class (joint aches, fatigue, continual coughing, etc.).