Notre Dame traces more than 50 coronavirus cases to off-campus party, official says

[TomCADem]

Source: CNBC

An off-campus party has led to a spike in coronavirus cases at the University of Notre Dame, which is now reporting more than 50 total cases since classes resumed just two weeks ago, according to a university official.

Notre Dame reported 58 Covid-19 cases as of Sunday, a sudden uptick in infections about a week since students returned to campus for the fall semester, according to its coronavirus dashboard last updated on Monday. Half of the 30 tests processed on Sunday alone were positive.

Cases have ballooned since the university reported its first positive case on Aug. 6 with more than 11.5% of the roughly 500 tests conducted so far returning positive.

Nearly 12,000 students were tested before arriving on campus as part of the university's pre-screening efforts, and only 33 tests, well below 1%, came back positive, according to the university.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/notre-dame-traces-more-than-50-coronavirus-cases-to-off-campus-party-official-says/ar-BB186UQa?li=BBnb7Kz

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What is amazing was how less than 1 percent were positive when they arrived at school, but a few parties later, you have an outbreak.

[yuiyoshida]

1. I said it before and will say it again ...

By November we will be well over 200,000 deaths in America, that could have been contained had there been leadership at the top.

[Delphinus]

8. Yes.

If it takes that long.

[NickB79]

14. We'll be over 200,000 dead by October

By Election Day we'll be closer to 250,000, IMO.

[roamer65]

18. THIS.

[jpak]

2. What did they expect?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "Pre-screening" is essentially worthless when students go "off campus" to a bar or club

or some house "party", maskless and/or masked without social distancing, and run into "non-prescreened non-students"... and bam! Outbreak.

The PROBLEM is BEHAVIOR.

[LisaL]

10. Yep, that's how it's spread among college kids.

All it takes is one positive case to start an outbreak and spread quickly, because of the parties that students are having.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. #COVIDIOTS

[mainer]

5. My son teaches at a college in upstate NY

He really does not want to return to class. And since a lot of his teaching is in a science lab, he can't socially distance. I keep sending him these articles, in hopes he and his fellow faculty can convince the college not to open.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. A lot of college classes could be taught on-line.

Not labs, though. That's a huge problem.

[roamer65]

17. Labs can be delayed.

When I went to University of Michigan, many science classes were split into lecture and laboratory classes.

[LisaM]

20. That's a good point. And not just for lab classes.

(I went to Michigan too). We had history lectures, and then much more intimate classes with a T.A.; same with astronomy (IIRC). I think your reasoning is brilliant. Get the lectures and overviews done now remotely, save the other stuff for later. Heck, I've been in huge lecture classes where seeing it remotely would not make that much of a difference (though I enjoyed the large lecture halls, but that is not as important).

[roamer65]

21. Exactly.

Remember the class schedules printed on paper? Lec for lecture, Rec for the recitation classes and Lab for the laboratories.

I remember CRISP. What fun that was...”No, that one is full...ok try this one...that’s full....etc...etc...ad nauseam.”


Lol.

[LisaM]

24. LOL CRISP.

The C should have stood for Chaos.

[roamer65]

25. Definitely.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Every college science class I took had lab and lecture separated.

Delayed is one thing. If you can't go into the lab at all, that's another.

[Initech]

6. Keep holding those house parties, idiots.

[LisaL]

9. UNC send all their undergrads home for on-line studies.

They were partying too.

[LittleGirl]

11. From someone that grew up there

It’s tough. Great school in the middle of nowhere Indiana, 80 miles from Chicago.
Might as well party, there’s nothing else to do.
Been there, done that.

[Laha]

12. Nothing else?

Except for maybe having some care for the people around you? Such stupid, selfish behaviour. Just today I was overjoyed when someone allowed me to say hello to their dog. The sacrifices can seem small and pointless. But they're so important.

[LittleGirl]

13. Well, I was just a townie

Most of the students at ND were children of the very rich.
If you could afford tuition at 50k a year, you have to prove your worth.
I worked there for four years and the students that reported to our department were wonderful smart empathetic humans. These students worked whereas the rich just partied.

[Laha]

15. That makes sense.

I'm sorry if I was a bit caustic there.

[LittleGirl]

16. Not at all. Welcome to DU! eom

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Because....College Kids

The percent of fully adult students (postgraduate, late law school, 6th year masters candidates) is small.
At least 2/3rds of the student population can't legally drink in Indiana.
Of course, this was going to be a problem.
That's why repopulating the campuses was clearly not fully thought out.

[Baclava]

23. The caged human herd will go into rut lust when freed, with flaring nostrils and pelvic thrusting

Mating rituals are best observed on moon lit nights when they gather to spawn en mass, around 2 AM, local time

'Spawn till you die', they cry, the primal instinctual urge of the stallions as they gather their harems sends the herd into a lathered frenzy