Thanks for the info.
I said that it’s weeks for severe cases. Parents have reported right here on this website of cases of this age group that have lasted 2-3 weeks.
Ok. Haven’t seen those poor folks who have had a 2-3 week illness, especially this age range? I’ve also know about 10 adults (50-60 year old range) who tested positive. All but 1 managed to work remotely throughout entire illness. One had to use inhalers and such, worse illness for sure, but no hospitalizations and all recovered within 2 weeks. Very different progression for college students versus parents.
Help me out. What surprises me is not that someone would know 10-12 or even 20 people who have tested positive, but that people would know that many in a specific 4 year age range (18-22) rather than spread across the life spectrum of 90-100 years. Why that age range in particular? I’m honestly confounded by that. Particularly with testing difficult to access in some places.and with many people in that age range not needing to be tested to go to jobs and mix with other workers.
I for one live in a hard hit area in PA and I only know 1 person who’s been tested.
It also baffles my mind that people on here keep talking about students returning to their schools, because they probably won’t get that sick, with the expectation that residents of the college town who are “vulnerable “ should be expected to isolate. Seems a bit self serving.
Young people generally experience the virus as a milder illness than older adults, and the majority do not require hospitalization, but to minimize the risk would be cavalier, IMO.
https://thebatesstudent.com/18928/news/jack-allard-16-is-in-critical-condition-due-to-covid-19/
Jack Allard, a recent college graduate, was an All-American lacrosse player. He survived but was in an induced coma for weeks.
Its rarity is why it garnered international headlines.
As I mentioned earlier, @billmarsh, it spread through a high school class here. So those victims were all either aged 17-18 and enrolled in the same class at the same time. I know my kid’s classmates. I would expect that is a not uncommon form of transmission, through classmates or teams or clubs/churches or similar groups, wherein the participants have something in common.
Eventually, things are going to open up again, and those in high risk groups will need to take extra precautions. That’s just the way it is. Stay at home orders were never intended to be a long term solution. They were necessary to reduce the burden on the healthcare system. Sure, there will be other measures which will continue or increase — face masks, hand washing, social distancing, to some extent. But stay at home will be phased out, most likely in the next 2-3 months. Then if/when there’s a resurgence, stay at home orders may come back, if needed, in order to manage the impact to the healthcare system. So, I wouldn’t call it “self-serving” to have students return to college, when many other aspects of life will be returning to a new normal.
It’s CDC recommendations that vulnerable populations isolate if there is community spread. In the absence of a vaccine, that rec is likely to continue.
It has nothing to do with posters’ opinions, or interests.
Well this is interesting news. How many students are in this class and what percentage got COVID? If 12 of a class of 24 or 30 got sick, that doesn’t bode well for on campus classes or dorm living in the fall.
All of this situations are pre-pandemic - without any social distancing, people being careful etc.
Yes, I know a couple of kids who hope this will help them get off the waitlist at their selective schools – or be accepted as a transfer student.
And your point is…? I hope you’re not comparing corona virus to mono and noro. Because that too is a dead horse.
“Seems a bit self serving” seems overly polite to me, LOL.
I am trying to understand the issue. Are you suggesting at-risk individuals not isolate?
Current CDC recommendations are for those at-risk to isolate…that’s not opinion, or self-serving. In the absence of a vaccine, and assuming the virus is circulating, those CDC recs are unlikely to change.
What am I missing? I am sure there are many vulnerable folks isolating right now who would not like to be.
I live in NYC, many people I know have had COVID 19. I can think of about 40 to 50 people, off the top of my head. Everyone ages 17 to 75 has recovered well. All those under 30, only felt sick for two to three days. All were able to get tested. I got tested due to exposure and some symptoms but was negative Sadly, one friend lost bot her parents who were in their mid-80s. They had traveled to NYC for an event on March 7 to 9 and died within a few days of each other - at the end of March, after they returned home to South Carolina. Two residents in my apartment building died from COVID, one was 93, and the other 89. Other friends have lost older parents who were in their 80s and had medical issues. Interestingly, my friends whose parents have died from COVID are the ones who feel most strongly that colleges MUST have in-person instruction this fall.
No, the “self-serving” part is the students returning to schools and putting the vulnerable in a more vulnerable position that requires them to be even more vigilant. That’s how I understood it.
But if at-risk people are isolating, it doesn’t seem like their risk would be increased if students return. Said differently, if the students didn’t return, are people thinking at-risk individuals would not be isolating?
I’m not saying this isn’t an issue, or that it shouldn’t be addressed. But, students who live off-campus even if schools are online are going to move in to their leased apartments, and of course for the schools that offer in-person instruction all the students will be there…so it’s an issue many communities will have to address either way.
Keep the stories coming about people who were infected and didn’t have that hard of a time. That helps my anxiety level! If you read the news, it seems like every case is dire.
It just poses an increased risk, unless a vulnerable person lives without any contact with the outside world whatsoever.
Opening a dorm completely would not be going back to normal GRADUALLY as proposed by both federal and state government and infectious disease experts. Dorms opening “normally” would create a hotbed of infections which would be very difficult to manage logistically… Schools are not medical facilities, students would need to be watched closely to make sure they stay hydrated and don’t crash (which some definitely will even though statistics show they do well). Lawsuits aside, it would be a big mess.