Opening schools

They grounded (my word) the students last Wednesday night, and all in person classes stop this coming Wednesday. Only a few labs and such were in person, and most lecture classes were remote anyway, so it isn’t going to be a big change for most students and faculty.

Given that 3 of the highest positive test count days occurred in the last 4 reported days I would not predict this is a peak. I hope the peak is soon, but we won’t know for two or more weeks.

Universities are a different environment from the general community, but I also think it will be very difficult to keep community spread low if the virus is exploding on campus. Lots of those college kids are also restaurant and retail workers, not to mention customers. At some point there will be spill over. The governor does not want to send the students home, because that will just send the infected all over. At least now they’re contained, and many are in the quarantine dorms.