Cornell 2020-21 plans

[billhoward]

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)

Be part of the Johnson College of Business if vets earned on par with doctors.

[upprdeck]

I wonder if the saliva test approval helps cornell.  more tests even faster/cheaper would be a good thing if they can take advantage of it.

[Tcl123]

https://apple.news/AROovsd6HRgyhaoX81ZlvfQ

Attached video in the article is an interview regarding Cornell and testing.

[George64]

our analyses show that the number of people infected and/or hospitalized is likely to be markedly lower if we have an in-person, residential semester with the aforementioned screening mechanisms than if we are purely online.

That should be a fun class action law suit.

"If we go all online your kids will still come here and then drink and fuck all day, so instead we're opening campus so they will have to spend at least some of that time studying."

Not sure that's going to fly when the bodies start piling up.

So far, so good.  COVID-19 Dashboard

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

our analyses show that the number of people infected and/or hospitalized is likely to be markedly lower if we have an in-person, residential semester with the aforementioned screening mechanisms than if we are purely online.

That should be a fun class action law suit.

"If we go all online your kids will still come here and then drink and fuck all day, so instead we're opening campus so they will have to spend at least some of that time studying."

Not sure that's going to fly when the bodies start piling up.

So far, so good.  COVID-19 Dashboard

Hell of a lot better than many of the schools here in PA.

[billhoward]

Still want to see every college measured also in cases per thousand undergrads, as well as total cases.

Unfair to lump TOSU at 46,000 undergrads to SUNY Buffalo with 22,000.

I'd say undergrad population not total because you expect grad students to be less dense about this.

[George64]

Cornell's so far successful COVID efforts highlighted on GMA.   Unfortunately, not commercial-free.

[George64]

Bloomberg.com on Cornell's COVID success to date.  LGR

[George64]

How Cornell is getting it done.  And in case you've missed Anthony Fauci, MD '66, here he is with Kate Snow, '91.

[RichH]

Bloomberg.com on Cornell's COVID success to date.  LGR

"Because it takes a small group of idiots to create a big problem." I'll work to translate this into Latin in case there's a new motto contest for something.

[Trotsky]

SUNY goes fully online after Thanksgiving.

No word on whether Cornell will be as intelligent and responsible as SUNY Cobleskill.

[Cop at Lynah]

Cornell's goes remote learning only as of Nov. 23.  That decision was made very early on.

[Trotsky]

Cornell's goes remote learning only as of Nov. 23.  That decision was made very early on.

Great way to backload all the cases onto Em and Pee back home.  I am impressed, as always, by Day Hall's malevolence.

[upprdeck]

Why do you think this?  Look at the numbers.. the kids are actually being much better than the staff so far.  And this is only the staff getting tested for work.. I am sure there are staff getting sick not baked into the numbers since they are working remotely..  if we were testing the staff at the same rate it might look really bad for them.

The goal was to get them home before the weather got bad in the cold states and now with 3 weeks left they might make it.

[jtwcornell91]

The goal was to get them home before the weather got bad in the cold states and now with 3 weeks left they might make it.

I thought the goal was to avoid having kids go home for Thanksgiving and come back again with a bunch of new infections.  At some point they have to go home at the end of the semester, but at least you can avoid an extra roundtrip in November/December.