Excellent linked piece about re-opening universities, co-authored by a professor of global health at Duke. This is one of my favourate paragraphs👇. 1/
https://time.com/5867395/will-universities-be-next-covid-19-tinderboxes
I've asked this question myself, e.g.👇. I've never received an answer. 2/ https://twitter.com/MikeOtsuka/status/1276214837664759812
Why haven't @UniversitiesUK employers published their estimates of the expected harms of re-opening under the plans they've adopted? 3/
If it's because they haven't done the research, modelling & calculations necessary to underpin such estimates, then they have no business re-opening their campuses to in-person teaching in the autumn. 4/
If it's because they *have* done the research, modelling & calculations, but they're unwilling to share their estimates of harm with students & faculty, then, once again, they have no business re-opening their campuses to in-person teaching in the autumn. 5/5
Tagging co-authors @AstroKatie & @GYamey, the former of whom posted this nice thread that caught my attention a few days ago👇. https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1281047192703295488
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