cornell covid testing

[scoop85]

If Omicron becomes the dominant strain, and IF (fingers crossed) it is less virulent than prior strains, then the focus should shift from who tests positive to how many people need hospitalization.

We'll know soon enough if this is where we'll be heading.

[upprdeck]

reading the Prez email at the rate this is spreading more people are gonna end up in hospitals than ever if you dont get a vax

[upprdeck]

I wonder what other schools would be finding if they were testing this hard around the area.. You wouldnt think a highly vax area like the Tomp county to be worse than other local areas.  Cortland/TC3 probably have much the same but dont even know it.

[BearLover]

With respect to canceling sporting events, given how cautious Cornell/the Ivy League has been since the beginning of the pandemic, nothing would surprise me at this point. But it would frankly be outrageous to cancel events long-term/into spring semester. Prior to the existence of a widely available vaccine, delaying the spread of COVID made sense. Now, there is no coherent argument in favor of delaying the spread of an endemic disease for which there exists a vaccine that prevents severe illness. We will never eradicate COVID; closing campus and canceling events will not prevent spread but only delay it. If an uptick in cases necessitates shutting things down, then Cornell will have to repeatedly shut things down every year until the end of time.

[upprdeck]

cornells response is pretty much try to slow it down enough and test enough to get kids off campus without taking it home. if this was sept and it happened and you didnt test like we did it would roll thru in 3-4 weeks and no kids would be left to get it at this rate.

[upprdeck]

i have been off campus for awhile now. did i miss some thing major happening to campus buidlings.

cornell campus

[jtwcornell91]

i have been off campus for awhile now. did i miss some thing major happening to campus buidlings.

cornell campus

Dammit, we told the Physics Department to stop doing experiments with Alice strings!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

i have been off campus for awhile now. did i miss some thing major happening to campus buidlings.

cornell campus

Dammit, we told the Physics Department to stop doing experiments with Alice strings!

Isn't that in Australia?

[ugarte]

If Omicron becomes the dominant strain, and IF (fingers crossed) it is less virulent than prior strains, then the focus should shift from who tests positive to how many people need hospitalization.

so far i think the evidence is that it is less virulent but more transmissible. alas, the transmissibility is potentially overwhelming the virulence, making it net more dangerous (though mostly to the unvaccinated, as the vaccinated get sick but clear the virus).

[Trotsky]

i have been off campus for awhile now. did i miss some thing major happening to campus buidlings.

cornell campus

Deep fake: it's a nice day.

[George64]

Just wondering.  

Almost all the identified infectives are students.  The incubation period (time from exposure to the development of symptoms) of the virus is estimated to be between 2 and 14 days based on the following sources:

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported an incubation period for COVID-19 between 2 and 10 days.

The CDC estimates the incubation period for COVID-19 to be between 2 and 14 days.

Viruses propagate in a susceptible population more or less exponentially, so might students who left campus for Thanksgiving have brought the virus back with them?  The models, which were the basis for originally keeping the campus open, showed that holding in-person classes was better than having students take classes virtually, where mandates for testing or other controls couldn't be enforced.

Maybe Mike should quarantine the team. Just wondering.
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[upprdeck]

much of the team lives together which is good if they really maintain a bubble.. but doubt they do.

[underskill]

Helluva vaccine they're forcing on people

[scoop85]

Helluva vaccine they're forcing on people

sure, the vaccines are useless :-|

[Trotsky]

Ignore it.  It feeds on attention.