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Old 08-14-2020, 08:39 AM   #147
tarcone
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Originally Posted by JPhillips View Post
A lot of the people talking about reopening college think of the student body in terms that applied in the 80s. Colleges then were almost exclusively resident undergrads, but that's not true today. There are so many commuter and adult students that there's no way to isolate the student body. If you add in faculty and staff, you probably have 2/3 of the total campus population leaving every day.

Even if the resident students on campus didn't socialize outside of campus, there would still be a high risk of virus spread from everyone else.

In Missouri public institutions, students have to live on campus their first 2 years. Thinking about your 2/3rds number. But you are probably right about that.

Then again college towns are different. They are kind of in a bubble. Life really orbits the university. You may more than half the population related to the university in some form or fashion.

Where my younger daughter is going the population of the town is about 20k and then you have about 8k students enrolled. That county has had 5 positive tests (well, until the outbreak at the boys town, which is quarantined anyway). SO I wonder how big the outbreak will be at these places.
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