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you want an idea as to whats going to happen when universities go back.....look at US Colleges

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By *abio OP   Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

the university i went to in the states, Michigan State, has just sent out an email to all students telling them to "self quarentine" for 14 days..... they have had an outbreak of 350 cases since they went back two weeks ago!

and they are not even the worst case... that's mild! (our university president happens to be a big time infectious diseases professor... so we tend to air on side of caution!)

university of alabama has 1200 cases in the first couple weeks they went back!, University on North Carolina had 1000, and there have been "major" outbreaks concerning universities in 40 different states so far!

i hate to say this is going to go sideways really quickly.... but.....

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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago

. . . . :)

To be fair we don't know what 'COVID safe' regime the US Colleges are using to be able to make a direct comparison.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Forgive if I am wrong, but are those unis teaching fully face to face or are larger classes/lectures online? Are student accommodation rooms singo occupancy or shared? UK unis are all doing lectures online plus any larger classes that don't require specialist equipment eg labs. Those classes that are practical and cannot be taught wholly online are to be taught in reduced class sizes, socially distanced and students are allowed/encouraged to wear masks. Where previously 50+ students might attend a practical, the capacity will be halved and the class run twice. Unis are extending teaching hours to facilitate running things twice, three times to cover the student numbers. The vast majority of British uni accommodation is single occupancy bedrooms with shared kitchen facilities. Some are shared bathrooms but most nowadays are en suite. Halls of residence with bars/social spaces will have those spaces closed or socially distanced activities enforced by the wardens etc. Obviously all this is not foolproof, but as good as they can do in the circumstances.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

As a student I'm going to be especially careful this semester.

The restrictions in place here will do a little to keep infections lower but returning after months with insufficient partying - in their minds - is probably going to mean that there will be a lot of socialising going on, especially away from halls.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral


"To be fair we don't know what 'COVID safe' regime the US Colleges are using to be able to make a direct comparison.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anywhere you have large groups of people freely mixing infectious diseases will spread. It happens every single year when colleges & universities restart - students get ill with some bug or another.

It'll happen with universities and it'll happen with schools too, there's nothing surer.

The good thing is that for the vast majority of students covid will be no more than an inconvenience as they are typically in the lowest risk group so there should be relatively little risk in allowing the virus to run it's course in residential student populations.

What DOES need to be controlled is interaction between students and the general population. It'll be almost impossible to prevent covid in halls of residence/student accommodation no matter how much you preach & lecture to the students so we should think of alternatives...

Perhaps bring residential students back a month before the rest & give the inevitable flare-up time to die down before the rest of the student body (who have a much greater risk of spreading the illness in the wider community as they probably live at home with parents, siblings etc.) return.

Again and again I see people just not thinking pragmatically about how to handle this illness. We CAN'T stop it, so let's find ways to minimize it's impact.

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