Colleges and universities are wrestling with how to treat, and budget for, unvaccinated students. A few schools are making such students pay to be tested regularly for Covid-19.
Colleges and universities are wrestling with how to treat, and budget for, unvaccinated students, with a few schools making those students pay to be tested regularly forAt the University of Texas, Austin, the difference between a student vaccination rate of 60% and 80% would cost the school about $4 million to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and treat additional students projected to get infected, the head of the school’s Covid-19 Modeling Consortium said.
If fewer students return to campus vaccinated, the school will spend more on tests, contact tracing, quarantine housing and online classes, said Dr. Lauren Meyers, a professor of integrative biology and data science who directs the consortium.“There are these two different worlds: There’s a world where we do all this mitigation, it’s successful enough that we could actually safely continue school in person and we don’t have to go online,” she said.
The consortium modeled 35 scenarios with student vaccination coverage ranging from 40% to 80% in a recent report. It estimates that 57% of the school’s 50,000 students would be fully vaccinated when classes start on Aug. 25 and about 209 would arrive on campus for the fall semester infected with Covid-19.
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