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https://www.dukechronicle.com/...id-spread-cdc-report
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They are doing similar things at UCSA where my daughter is. They have had very little outbreak.
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I am afraid they are doing the opposite at Penn State where infections are soaring to the extent our county is one of he foremost contributors to the state's infection increase. I guess it's because the university and sports programs (Football especially) figure so heavily in the economy of the area. Nothing else comes close. There was a radical inflection point when the students returned from Summer Break. (Infections soaring and continuing - as expected.) All containment efforts seem to be just words on paper. I discuss this with a young man helping me with yard work . - a fraternity member and - but? - very smart. He explains his decision to attend Penn State as 50/50 academics and partying. Says this is typical. And the students really don't seem to care, "Greek life" especially. No one seems to be remotely considering a return to virtual instruction no matter how bad it gets. Especially too bad that we are served by a small, "sub par" hospital. One of our great lacks, is that Penn State's Medical School was located in the town of Hershey, thanks to the great wealth of the Hershey family who insisted. (Chocolate outbid everything!) .
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"I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
W&M has successfully completed the fall semester. So has my other school, Kenyon. Institutions that demanded pre-testing and which repeatedly tested the entire student body seemed to do OK. These schools also tended to have extensive norm-building programs to create a common public health culture on campus. They complemented those norms with serious consequences for violating the norms. And they had exacting tracing regimes and adequate isolation procedures. If a college/university does things right, I suspect it's a safer environment for students than if they live at home taking zoom classes, often in areas rife with disease. | |||
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