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Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

I think they are not out of the woods yet. I'll feel a lot better if the uptick that follows this relative few day lull is less than where they were at on Sept 16-18.

There was a national surge then. Why? Labor Day weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

I think they are not out of the woods yet. I'll feel a lot better if the uptick that follows this relative few day lull is less than where they were at on Sept 16-18.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

UVA was teetering on the edge of being in real trouble. Hopefully, the emergency actions they are taking will reverse the trend. They are increased the number of new cases week over week, they have been increasing 25%.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

This hasn't been updated since 9/10 - says so right at the top of the page.

Anonymous wrote:I've been watching several colleges on the NY Times Campus Covid Tracker. It looks like the case numbers at UVA are still relatively small. Not saying they shouldn't be actively trying to stop the spread, but it seems there are some other schools that need to get a better plan together.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

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Anonymous wrote:So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

Not when you take into account they (under normal circumstances) have 33,300 people on campus: 25,000 students; 6,149 Administrators and 3,265 academics. Also, they are engaging in the very expensive task of monitoring waste from the dorms to find cases before symptoms. And they have cleared out the international students housing dorm to allow for 1550 beds should they need it for quarantine. Not one student is yet at the UVA hospital, which is also right there. President Ryan recently limited the size of student meet-ups on campus to no more than five people (6 feet apart); students and off-campus students have been told they should not have visitors or invite anyone to Charlottesville. This will be enforced. And all students will be required to wear masks at all times unless they are in their room, eating, or exercising outdoors or in accordance with the guidelines at one of the on-Grounds IM/Rec facilities. Students have even even been told when exercising, they should always keep a mask on hand in case you run into another person. So I don't know what OP is talking about. I think they are doing as best as they can under very trying and often changing circumstances.

Despite your long comment, I'm sure the spike around the 17th-18th was cause for concern which resulted in the new round of increased restrictions you mentioned. There also seems to be some seasonality in UVA testing results, so the next couple of days may be interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

Not when you take into account they (under normal circumstances) have 33,300 people on campus: 25,000 students; 6,149 Administrators and 3,265 academics. Also, they are engaging in the very expensive task of monitoring waste from the dorms to find cases before symptoms. And they have cleared out the international students housing dorm to allow for 1550 beds should they need it for quarantine. Not one student is yet at the UVA hospital, which is also right there. President Ryan recently limited the size of student meet-ups on campus to no more than five people (6 feet apart); students and off-campus students have been told they should not have visitors or invite anyone to Charlottesville. This will be enforced. And all students will be required to wear masks at all times unless they are in their room, eating, or exercising outdoors or in accordance with the guidelines at one of the on-Grounds IM/Rec facilities. Students have even even been told when exercising, they should always keep a mask on hand in case you run into another person. So I don't know what OP is talking about. I think they are doing as best as they can under very trying and often changing circumstances.

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Anonymous wrote:Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....

GMU - One, but it takes that person an hour to drive through traffic to get to the lightbulb to change it.

UVa - 30 or 40. One to do the job, the rest to talk about how awesome the old lightbulb was.

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Anonymous wrote:Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....

GMU - One, but it takes that person an hour to drive through traffic to get to the lightbulb to change it.

Anonymous wrote:So UVA has reported 44 student cases in the last four days. That seems higher than they would like obviously, but not spiking after they reported 58 on the 17th alone.

Anonymous wrote:Cue "how many Virginia college students does it take to screw in a lightbulb" link in 3..2....1.....