I doubt it when it comes to hospitalization. You have to assume that if you are going to be hospitalized, they do a COVID check. You can have the flu and COVID at the same time, and it is unlikely they check for the Flu. But the flu is more dangerous to children than COVID is.
Want to keep your job as University President? Then don't totally blotch your job by opening up your school with effectively no COVID restrictions. SUNY Oneonta president resigns after school’s COVID-19 outbreak https://nypost.com/2020/10/17/suny-oneonta-president-resigns-after-covid-19-outbreak-on-campus/
North Carolina has endured the deaths of multiple university administrators from COVID-19 in recent weeks. Saint Augustine's University president Irving McPhail was the most well-known and respected. COVID-19 blamed in death of Saint Augustine's University president Irving McPhail https://abc11.com/irving-pressley-mcphail-president-st-aug-dies-saint-augustine/7064492/
Parents complaining about their kids being forced back to school... Parents complaining about their kids restricted to home (not in school). Regardless, most schools and universities weren't prepare but the universities are going to be hurting the most with the declines in sport events / participation especially the sports that pays the jobs of many employees and other sports. Thus, I wouldn't be surprise if schools close minor sports and budgets for new research buildings / projects are cancelled. Some schools already hurting financially prior to the Pandemic will just file for bankruptcy. wrbtrader
prepared for what? this is really very simple... It is an IQ test for the high risk.. Its on the high risk to protect themselves via isolation (if they wish to live. Some obviously choose to take the risk and enjoy life now. Which is almost admirable.) For the low risk... statistically speaking, this is the flu or less. All you have to do is realize this virus seems designed by China or Nature to harm or kill the old and those who drive up medical care costs. If you are not young and healthy you better learn the risks yourself and protect yourself. and don't rely on masks... Masks don't protect you sufficiently to trust them. Masks fail... 70 and then 85% of the people who caught Covid said they wear masks all the time or some of the time.
Face mask (proper ones), wash hands with soap 20 seconds minimum and social distancing. Not rocket science Too many doing one and not the others...hoping that one will be sufficient enough. Simply, face masks are useless if you're not washing your hands, not social distancing and have your face mask down around your neck or you pull it down to have a conversation with someone. Great example are the student body fans at the college football games...they enter the stadium with their masks on but many pull their masks down after finding a place to sit / stand / yell and leave their masks down for the duration of the game...IQ not too high. If their schools enforce restrictions such as stay in their dorms or off campus housing to do virtual learning...I doubt they'll still get it and will bitch & whine about not having a good college experience and that they wore their face masks some of the time. Mom Dad - I went to a +100 person frat party...only a few wore their face masks. Those that had them had it around their necks but we were all talking to each other at 6 feet apart in that frat house...the night before the football game. I'm confused, why didn't my face mask work to prevent me from becoming Covid-19 positive ??? P.S. True story (above) by a sophomore honour student @ Notre Dame...a son of one of my college roommates. It's a problem at many Universities across the North America (United States and Canada). For example @ https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...ts-positive-for-covid-19.351329/#post-5229105 wrbtrader
Article looks at schools state-by-state.... States where COVID-19 has widened student achievement gaps https://mooresvilletribune.com/busi...n_be026abf-d119-5145-87ca-c3b5030e1c7b.html#1 The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools across the country to close and transfer to online learning, alarming educators that existing achievement gaps would worsen for children with limited access to the internet, computers, and other devices. Stacker looks at the academic effects of these changes, as calculated by a team of Harvard University researchers. When schools across the country moved to distance learning in the spring to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus, educators and others immediately worried about students on the wrong side of the digital divide. Schools have already been confronting persistent achievement gaps between low- and high-income students, as well as between Black and Hispanic students and white students, and time away from school seemed likely to worsen it. McKinsey & Company published a report in June predicting that low-income, Black, and Hispanic students would probably experience the greatest losses in learning. The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker, a project by a team of researchers based at Harvard University, compiles and tracks the economic impacts of COVID-19 on businesses and communities across America. One area of research for the group is student activity on Zearn, a math application which is used for online instruction across the country. The OIET has compiled data on both student engagement and student achievement (measured in “badges” earned by students) for K-12 students, broken down by month and by economic status. Stacker has identified the achievement and engagement changes driven by COVID-19 for students in every state, based on comparing average Zearn activity in January and February 2020 to average activity in March through June. Stacker compared the achievement and engagement for schools in high-income ZIP codes (defined by the tracker as the 25% of ZIP codes with the highest median income) to the achievement and engagement for schools in low-income ZIP codes (the 25% of ZIP codes with the lowest median income). States and Washington D.C. are ranked here according to their achievement gaps—the differences in achievement between these two groups. Eight states do not have data available for either the high- or low-income group and are therefore not ranked in the story. Read on to learn about COVID-19’s effects on learning in your state. (Article at url goes state by state)
Locally we are seeing this trend - school after school after school -- schools get overrun with COVID despite all the safety measures and have to go back to virtual. Most last a few mere weeks before having to revert to virtual. Wake County Schools started classes with partial attendance for K-3 on Monday of this week. Wake is our largest school system with over 160,000 students. In school for other students will start in mid-November. We will see how things turn out. Our community spread is rising quickly in North Carolina. Person County elementary moves to online learning after coronavirus cluster https://www.wral.com/person-county-...-learning-after-coronavirus-cluster/19355393/