With over 61,000 positive COVID-19 cases having been discovered on campuses since late August, college towns account for 19 of the top 25 hot spots in the U.S. What are schools doing to curtail the spread?
It’s not like schools didn’t plan for COVID. Some created computer models they believed would predict the spread. The University of Illinois invested over $6 million on an aggressive initiative that included twice-weekly rapid testing for students and faculty and compulsory masks. But after just 2 weeks of classes, the school found more than 700 cases on campus.
In late August, North Carolina State University in Raleigh moved all classes online and, less than a week later, it closed all dorms after finding 24 clusters of cases. “They missed what was right in front of their eyes: College-age students do a lot of risky, reckless things,” says Laurence Steinberg, PhD, a professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia and one of the world's leading experts on adolescence. “Going to parties, frat houses, bars -- it’s not like they weren’t doing this before.
And then there are the students who continued to party after testing positive. That’s what happened at the University of Illinois. “We modeled that they were going to go to parties and that they probably weren’t going to wear masks, and it would lead to some level of transmission,” Martin Burke, a chemist at the school who helped develop the rapid test, told. “What we didn’t model for is that people would choose to go to a party if they knew that they were positive.
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