A study published today says that college students can be kept safe from contracting the coronavirus and live on residential campuses if they are tested every 2 days for Covid-19
40% of its 6,700 undergraduates to campus starting September 2. First-years and seniors may live on campus. Classes will be remote for all students. Those on campus will log onto computers in single dorm rooms. Harvard has said it would administer tests every three days and a spokesman confirms that it will use the Broad test but wouldn’t comment on whether it would adopt the study’s recommendation to test students every other day.
Paltiel is concerned that all colleges are not as well funded as Harvard and unable to observe the protocols recommended by the study. “We’re setting an exceptionally high bar,” he says. “The recommendations are logistically very difficult to adhere to and they impose a financial burden on universities. Frankly they may be beyond the capacity of most universities.”
On the other hand, students who stay home and study online are also at risk. “They are under the imperfect supervision of their families, they will be hanging out with their friends in an unstructured environment which is also risky,” he says. “It’s not likely closing schools solves the problem of transmission of college-age kids. It just sends the problems back home.”
He’s hopeful that progress is being made on developing even less expensive rapid-turnaround saliva tests. But he’s also worried about under-resourced campuses. “I am concerned that many schools are only going to do enough to minimally get by,” he says. “If a school can’t meet these standards, it has to ask whether it has any business reopening.”
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