cornell covid testing

[Tcl123]

https://people.com/health/cornell-university-900-new-covid-cases-omicron-variant/

[jtwcornell91]

Ignore it.  It feeds on attention.

The Querdenker are everywhere, it seems.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Ignore it.  It feeds on attention.

The Querdenker are everywhere, it seems.

Not sure there doing much denken.

[Chris '03]

Harvard will be remote to open spring term. Would be reasonable to expect other schools to follow suit.

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-update-january-remote-learning-work/

[upprdeck]

i find it interesting so many of the tested have not been of the new variant.  after all fall suddenly t-day kicks off a huge outbreak for the kids, like they went home and mixed with people and boom break thru covid all over.. 10% of the kids getting sick in a week.. good news 10% so it worked for 90%  I guess.

[Chris '03]

i find it interesting so many of the tested have not been of the new variant.  after all fall suddenly t-day kicks off a huge outbreak for the kids, like they went home and mixed with people and boom break thru covid all over.. 10% of the kids getting sick in a week.. good news 10% so it worked for 90%  I guess.

I thought I read that substantially all Cornell student cases were omicron.

[David Harding]

i find it interesting so many of the tested have not been of the new variant.  after all fall suddenly t-day kicks off a huge outbreak for the kids, like they went home and mixed with people and boom break thru covid all over.. 10% of the kids getting sick in a week.. good news 10% so it worked for 90%  I guess.

I thought I read that substantially all Cornell student cases were omicron.

From the https://cornellsun.com/2021/12/17/how-the-omicron-variant-and-the-end-of-the-semester-created-perfect-storm-for-cornells-covid-outbreak/ December 17, 2021

"The initial batch of positive results from the 18-24 population, prioritized for sequencing due to the rapid spread observed and indication of Omicron, resulted in all 115 samples being confirmed cases of the variant," Kruppa wrote. "These results indicate that the primary spread amongst this population is due to the more transmissible Omicron variant."

[upprdeck]

thats not what I heard I was told 100 out of the 300.. but if its 115 because thats all they sequenced that explains they uptick much better, and is actually good news. It mans delta didnt suddenly get worse but that Omi spreading is gonna go fast.

[George64]

From today's D&C regarding New York's COVID mandates:

"Are masks required when playing indoor sports?

Yes, in the case of sports taking place inside a gym or other indoor sports facility."
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[Iceberg]

From today's D&C regarding New York's COVID mandates:

"Are masks required when playing indoor sports?

Yes, in the case of sports taking place inside a gym or other indoor sports facility."
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And I guarantee that professional sports teams will be magically exempt from those mandates. They're using the same tired playbook from late 2020 despite the availability of vaccines. And omicron spread aside, many recreational sports participants have much less tolerance for mask mandates considering what has happened within the past year.

[Trotsky]

Harvard will be remote to open spring term. Would be reasonable to expect other schools to follow suit.

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-update-january-remote-learning-work/

IIRC we followed them in 2020.  Gonna be something when they cancel their sports.

[Chris '03]

Harvard will be remote to open spring term. Would be reasonable to expect other schools to follow suit.

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-update-january-remote-learning-work/

IIRC we followed them in 2020.  Gonna be something when they cancel their sports.

Seems like lots of schools trying to find a balance. Yale and cornell now mandating boosters but still plan to open on time. Yale banning spectators from sports through at least 1/1. Union delayed reopening of campus a week.

I would guess they will try to postpone things like ivy sports schedules where possible (maybe push basketball back a week and cancel tournament) before just shutting everything down again. Would hate to see ivy hockey teams pushed into January forfeits.

[CU2007]

So are we just going to cancel things forever? What's the end game with this? Is there any sort of plan or scientific theory as to how this can end?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

So are we just going to cancel things forever? What's the end game with this? Is there any sort of plan or scientific theory as to how this can end?

Everybody infected or vaccinated.

Or dead.

[BearLover]

So are we just going to cancel things forever? What's the end game with this? Is there any sort of plan or scientific theory as to how this can end?

If this season gets canceled, then there is officially no endgame. The endgame should have been a widely accessible vaccine, which there now is. COVID is/will be endemic, so canceling things now is essentially signing up to cancel things during every future wave, of which there will be many.