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first day of classes, 107 students self-reported as COVID positive.
we have no mandate of self reporting covid tests, the student training included the phrase "they will let you know if you can be tested for covid 19".
IF.
we have no mandate of self reporting covid tests, the student training included the phrase "they will let you know if you can be tested for covid 19".
IF.
again to have an "acceptable" number of + Covid cases means you are willing to have an "acceptable" number of covid deaths, and quite frankly i completely disagree. in-person classes will get people sick, some will die. this was all preventable.
there is no acceptable number of deaths from a deadly disease and especially if you could have prevented those deaths by NOT HAVING IN PERSON CLASSES OR STUDENTS ON CAMPUS.
i will be updating this thread for as long as we have in-person classes and people in dorms, which i predict will happen for as long as it takes for tuition & room and board to become nonrefundable
uiowa didn't test people who moved into dorms, are only running on "self-reporting", and are assuming that all their students will behave as if they are susceptible. (bad assumption, we've seen people packing into bars here)
and when we inevitably get several large clusters, they will turn around and blame the students instead of the people who pushed for campus reopening which lead to this situation in the first place.
i am well aware that states don't like funding schools and higher ed, but the answer to that is NOT reopening your school in the middle of a pandemic, esp. when a reasonably large proportion of students come from under-served communities re: healthcare
when dorms close, and students are forced to go home, that will probably increase infection in rural communities with hospitals that are easily overwhelmed.
a long-standing problem in more rural states like iowa is that we can't easily get stroke patients treatment within 4-6hrs (early treatment is always better for strokes). and now we're combining that with a pandemic that's causing strokes.
schools aren't a closed eco-system, and we can't pretend that clusters of infections among undergrads don't have serious repercussions on them, in the immediate community, and in their home communities.
