Cornell 2020-21 plans

[Scersk '97]

For the official eLynah record, RPI is not allowing any Greek residential living this fall and has commandeered an apartment building purpose built for Hudson Valley Community College.

Long live the Queen.

Oh my! She's really ready for high office in the nascent American State.

[Trotsky]

Wow, it will be weird to see Colgate students test negative for things.

We would also have accepted Brown* or Dartmouth.

You magnificent bastard.

*Brown's tests will be Pass/Fail.

[David Harding]

If they do the testing as they say they will they can make it happen.. how they do the testing who knows.

Plans were to be full on saliva pool testing to save money and increase capacity. still havent seen signs of that.
Cornell has a big med college, maybe they have plans to send tests to NYC on the bus and back every day for turn around.

https://cornellsun.com/2020/07/02/what-happens-if-someone-throws-a-party-questions-and-answers-on-the-model-reopening-campus/

Frazier: Number one, those who live in Ithaca and are associated with Cornell are actually extraordinarily lucky in that there is a very large ability to do [polymerase chain reaction] tests, the chemical reaction used for doing testing for the presence of the virus. There's a large capability to do that in the Vet School. That exists in order to do testing for dairy cows and other animals in order to control outbreaks in that population. But it can be repurposed. There's a whole bunch of complicated regulatory stuff that we could talk about, but that can be repurposed to provide testing for our community. And that's a thing that most other universities don't have access to.

[French Rage]

Any truth to the statement that the Cayuga Medical Center only has one ventilator and they got it from the Cornell Vet School?

[dag14]

I doubt that the vet school ventilator story is true since earlier this spring they were transferring hospitalized patients to CMC from NYC.

[Scersk '97]

If they do the testing as they say they will they can make it happen.. how they do the testing who knows.

Plans were to be full on saliva pool testing to save money and increase capacity. still havent seen signs of that.
Cornell has a big med college, maybe they have plans to send tests to NYC on the bus and back every day for turn around.

https://cornellsun.com/2020/07/02/what-happens-if-someone-throws-a-party-questions-and-answers-on-the-model-reopening-campus/

Frazier: Number one, those who live in Ithaca and are associated with Cornell are actually extraordinarily lucky in that there is a very large ability to do [polymerase chain reaction] tests, the chemical reaction used for doing testing for the presence of the virus. There's a large capability to do that in the Vet School. That exists in order to do testing for dairy cows and other animals in order to control outbreaks in that population. But it can be repurposed. There's a whole bunch of complicated regulatory stuff that we could talk about, but that can be repurposed to provide testing for our community. And that's a thing that most other universities don't have access to.

Ag School not so funny anymore!

[abmarks]

If they do the testing as they say they will they can make it happen.. how they do the testing who knows.

Plans were to be full on saliva pool testing to save money and increase capacity. still havent seen signs of that.
Cornell has a big med college, maybe they have plans to send tests to NYC on the bus and back every day for turn around.

https://cornellsun.com/2020/07/02/what-happens-if-someone-throws-a-party-questions-and-answers-on-the-model-reopening-campus/

Frazier: Number one, those who live in Ithaca and are associated with Cornell are actually extraordinarily lucky in that there is a very large ability to do [polymerase chain reaction] tests, the chemical reaction used for doing testing for the presence of the virus. There's a large capability to do that in the Vet School. That exists in order to do testing for dairy cows and other animals in order to control outbreaks in that population. But it can be repurposed. There's a whole bunch of complicated regulatory stuff that we could talk about, but that can be repurposed to provide testing for our community. And that's a thing that most other universities don't have access to.

Ag School not so funny anymore!

vetschool is part of ag school? (serious question)

[Al DeFlorio]

If they do the testing as they say they will they can make it happen.. how they do the testing who knows.

Plans were to be full on saliva pool testing to save money and increase capacity. still havent seen signs of that.
Cornell has a big med college, maybe they have plans to send tests to NYC on the bus and back every day for turn around.

https://cornellsun.com/2020/07/02/what-happens-if-someone-throws-a-party-questions-and-answers-on-the-model-reopening-campus/

Frazier: Number one, those who live in Ithaca and are associated with Cornell are actually extraordinarily lucky in that there is a very large ability to do [polymerase chain reaction] tests, the chemical reaction used for doing testing for the presence of the virus. There's a large capability to do that in the Vet School. That exists in order to do testing for dairy cows and other animals in order to control outbreaks in that population. But it can be repurposed. There's a whole bunch of complicated regulatory stuff that we could talk about, but that can be repurposed to provide testing for our community. And that's a thing that most other universities don't have access to.

Ag School not so funny anymore!

vetschool is part of ag school? (serious question)

No

[Trotsky]

I spent a year in the Ag school and nobody's letting me poke around their animals especially since the court order.

[jtwcornell91]

I spent a year in the Ag school and nobody's letting me poke around their animals especially since the court order.

Cue the "animal husbandry" jokes.

[upprdeck]

student getting tested twice a week should be interesting.. I wonder how often the staff will get tested

[David Harding]

student getting tested twice a week should be interesting.. I wonder how often the staff will get tested

They pretty consistently say testing the whole Cornell community.

[upprdeck]

The Profs dont even know what that means yet..

[French Rage]

I doubt that the vet school ventilator story is true since earlier this spring they were transferring hospitalized patients to CMC from NYC.

So does that mean they actually have no ventilators?

[David Harding]

Any truth to the statement that the Cayuga Medical Center only has one ventilator and they got it from the Cornell Vet School?

In March CMC said they had 25 ventilators.  https://ithacavoice.com/2020/03/cmc-says-theyre-prepared-to-increase-capacity-to-meet-cuomo-mandate/