A students sits on the steps of Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the US. Picture: REUTERS
Back-to-school season will be tested by a fast-moving pandemic that is regularly setting records for new cases and has already halted or reversed other reopening plans. Even before classes resume, the consequences are coming into focus: at the University of Washington, an outbreak on Greek Row left at least 142 students with Covid-19.
While a debate rages over the Trump administration’s guidance this week on returning elementary, middle and high-school students to empty classrooms, colleges have been left to their own devices. The University of California San Diego, on the other hand, has a campus population of about 65,000. It is looking to test at least 75% of anyone returning to campus every month, said Natasha Martin, an associate professor in the school’s division of infectious diseases and global public health. Should they be able to bring everyone back, that could mean more than 1,600 individuals each day.“We are using testing to be able to detect outbreaks early,” Martin said.
In a research preprint put out on Tuesday that has not been peer-reviewed, Yale and Harvard researchers proposed a model for screening college students every one to seven days. Frequent testing on rapid-result devices paired with quarantining positive patients can help control outbreaks at a reasonable cost, they said.
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