rbg
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09-11-20 12:13 PM - Post#313188
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Brown
Will be returning more students next week and resuming classes in early October
https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/09/10/brown-...
- The decision was influenced by improvements in Rhode Island’s public health situation, low positivity rates from Brown’s COVID-19 testing program and low demand for isolation and quarantine rooms at the University, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a Thursday community email announcing the reopening. -
- About 900 undergraduates who have not yet returned to Brown could move back to Providence between Sept. 18 and 20, with some in-person instruction set to start Oct. 5. -
Cornell
Cornell has the most ambitious mitigation/testing program and has brought the largest number of students back.
There have been some glitches in the testing program, but overall seems to be good.
The dashboard was not updated through the Labor Day weekend, which did not go well with the campus and community.
Late last week, the school moved from its low "green" risk category to low-to-moderate "yellow" due to two clusters. There were 36 student athletes in those groups.
https://cornellsun.com/2020/09/03/cornell-ti cks-up...
The school originally said it would go remote if there were 250 active cases on campus, but Governor Cuomo announced that any NY college or university would go remote if there were active cases of 100+ or 55 of total on-campus population (whichever is less) in a 14 day period.
The number of on-campus cases is determined by students in dorms + off-campus students who have at least 1 class or lab on-campus + staff that works on-campus. The 14 day clock started the day that classes officially began (9/2 for Cornell).
As of 9/9, Cornell sits at 42 active cases in the Cuomo-metric.
Penn:
School was going to stop asymptomatic testing this weekend and move to symptomatic/surveillance testing. Students petitioned to have asymptomatic testing extended throughout the semester.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/09/gatew ay-asym...
Last night, the DP reported that the school changed course and will continue asymptomatic testing throughout the semester. From the info in the article, it is hard to see how the changes are different than Penn's previously planned protocol.
Also, there will be a new protocol for specific communal groups (Greek Life, off-campus Greek affiliated organizations, athletics, and student organizations known to live in common houses).
https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/09/penn- greek-l...
- The second email, which will be sent to students in Greek Life, off-campus Greek affiliated organizations, athletics, and student organizations known to live in common houses, has been written in conjunction with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to help these groups lessen and contain and reduce the virus's spread.
A memo written by Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley will be apart of the email. The memo, titled "Alert — COVID-19 Transmission among Greek Organization Members and Affiliates," was written in response to a large number of positive cases in Greek Life organizations at Penn, Temple University, and other Philadelphia-area colleges, Director of Digital Public Health Jim Garrow said in the interview with the DP.
Halbritter declined to specify the exact group or college, but said in one Philadelphia Greek house, 39% of residents tested positive for the virus.
"This memo is meant to be a targeted communication to students in Greek Life, but it applies to other students as well," Garrow said. "We are recommending that students living in large households remain in their homes." -
Yale
Moved from its low risk "green" category to low-to-moderate "yellow" category. I cannot find any information why this was done.
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