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1. Colleges and universities are going to be starting up in a matter of a weeks.
If I were a student, staff member, or faculty member on a campus planning to carry out in-person instruction, there a number of questions I would want to ask of the administration.
If I were a student, staff member, or faculty member on a campus planning to carry out in-person instruction, there a number of questions I would want to ask of the administration.
2. Given the prevalence of COVID in the US right now, there will be cases on campus on opening day. Colleges are high-contact environments.
I would ask "What is your plan to keep R below 1, so that cases decline instead of exploding?"
I would ask "What is your plan to keep R below 1, so that cases decline instead of exploding?"
3. "Vague, hopeful handwaving doesn't cut it. What model or models have you used to establish that your plan reduces R below 1?"
"What have you done to test the sensitivity of model outcomes to models assumptions?"
"What have you done to test the sensitivity of model outcomes to models assumptions?"
4. If there is not going to be entry testing, I would like to know why not—and what effect the absence of entry testing has in the models that are being used for campus planning.
5. "What are the specific tripwires that would trigger specific increases in infection control? What would trigger a shift to fully on-line education?"
(These plans need to be made in advance, not in the heat of the moment.)
(These plans need to be made in advance, not in the heat of the moment.)
6. "If contingency plans include closing dormitories, what precautions are in place to minimize the risk to the families and communities of students returning home from a campus where disease is raging?"
7. "What provisions and accommodations are available for students, faculty, *and particularly for staff* who feel they returning in person is too dangerous given their individual health and family considerations?"
