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You risk the institution effectively having to shut down if too many students/faculty are sick at any given time. Students live in dorms with other students. I

You risk the institution effectively having to shut down if too many students/faculty are sick at any given time. Students live in dorms with other students. If one gets sick they have to isolate away from other students. This is effectively impossible in a traditional dorm so they have to be moved to quarantine. There is likely a limit to quarantine space available. If quarantine is filled the University will have to shut down because they cannot follow CDC guidance. It is not about the immediate health risk to the students as that is relatively low, but the University being able to continue operations.

ekianjo 5y ago
> oo many students/faculty are sick at any given time. Whats the rate of hospitalization for COVID among students right now? If you dont have that kind of actual data in hand, you can't make a proper decision. because of the demographics that number should be close to zero, except for students that have multiple comorbidities.
- etempleton 5y ago
  The CDC has guidance for how colleges should handle students who test positive for Covid. You cannot have a student who has tested positive living in the dorms with other students. You do not need to be in the hospital to be sick, no?
  - jerlam 5y ago
    Colleges and schools in general are also very unforgiving of sick time, compared to work. If you miss a week or two of a difficult class, you may not be able to make up for that lost time in order to pass. With some classes only being offered at specific quarters/semesters and many being impacted, a single failed or dropped class can put you a year behind graduation, assuming you can pay for it. If a professor or teaching assistants gets sick, it would have pretty significant impacts for a larger number of students.
srackey 5y ago
Or they could not? Among college-aged folks, Corona has mild symptoms - maybe approaching a bad flu. When I was at school, we had flu outbreaks. People got sick, their roommates got sick…and no one was tested or quarantined or had to wear masks. Life continued. What if we just stopped? We could treat Corona outbreaks at schools like cold or flu outbreaks. Would anyone even notice Omicron ripping through the student body if we weren’t obsessively looking? I doubt it.
- etempleton 5y ago
  I too was in college during a major flu outbreak. I got very sick. It actually changed a lot of operating procedures at my school and was the start of hand sanitizer being everywhere. It also kicked off the increased recommendation of the flu vaccine for everyone. The CDC has guidance for colleges and universities on how to handle any number of outbreaks. Colleges are following guidance on how to handle Covid-19. Will that guidance change in the future? Probably. But it hasn’t changed yet.
  - sharken 5y ago
    That guidance needs to change now, there is little difference to flu and Corona outbreaks due to the vaccines.
    - multjoy 5y ago
      Thus spake someone who has never actually had influenza.
      - sharken 5y ago
        How can you be so sure ?
        multjoy 5y ago
        Because people who've had a bad dose of influenza never call it a bit flu.
bertday 5y ago
The vaccine doesn’t prevent infection; it mainly prevents death. The other way to interpret this is that they do not want to be responsible for deaths, but are fine with low-risk infections. I anecdotally know people who had a booster and were still subsequently infected. Packing 200 people in a room over 100 days and these rare cases will happen.

ekianjo 5y ago

> oo many students/faculty are sick at any given time. Whats the rate of hospitalization for COVID among students right now? If you dont have that kind of actual data in hand, you can't make a proper decision. because of the demographics that number should be close to zero, except for students that have multiple comorbidities.

etempleton 5y ago
The CDC has guidance for how colleges should handle students who test positive for Covid. You cannot have a student who has tested positive living in the dorms with other students. You do not need to be in the hospital to be sick, no?
- jerlam 5y ago
  Colleges and schools in general are also very unforgiving of sick time, compared to work. If you miss a week or two of a difficult class, you may not be able to make up for that lost time in order to pass. With some classes only being offered at specific quarters/semesters and many being impacted, a single failed or dropped class can put you a year behind graduation, assuming you can pay for it. If a professor or teaching assistants gets sick, it would have pretty significant impacts for a larger number of students.

srackey 5y ago

Or they could not? Among college-aged folks, Corona has mild symptoms - maybe approaching a bad flu. When I was at school, we had flu outbreaks. People got sick, their roommates got sick…and no one was tested or quarantined or had to wear masks. Life continued. What if we just stopped? We could treat Corona outbreaks at schools like cold or flu outbreaks. Would anyone even notice Omicron ripping through the student body if we weren’t obsessively looking? I doubt it.

etempleton 5y ago
I too was in college during a major flu outbreak. I got very sick. It actually changed a lot of operating procedures at my school and was the start of hand sanitizer being everywhere. It also kicked off the increased recommendation of the flu vaccine for everyone. The CDC has guidance for colleges and universities on how to handle any number of outbreaks. Colleges are following guidance on how to handle Covid-19. Will that guidance change in the future? Probably. But it hasn’t changed yet.
- sharken 5y ago
  That guidance needs to change now, there is little difference to flu and Corona outbreaks due to the vaccines.
  - multjoy 5y ago
    Thus spake someone who has never actually had influenza.
    - sharken 5y ago
      How can you be so sure ?
      - multjoy 5y ago
        Because people who've had a bad dose of influenza never call it a bit flu.

bertday 5y ago

The vaccine doesn’t prevent infection; it mainly prevents death. The other way to interpret this is that they do not want to be responsible for deaths, but are fine with low-risk infections. I anecdotally know people who had a booster and were still subsequently infected. Packing 200 people in a room over 100 days and these rare cases will happen.