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Interesting to take a look at the Wonkhe Covid Dashboard on this, the Festival of the Tiers. It's a complete reversal from early October - most of the high case numbers are in areas with few students. https://wonkhe.com/blogs/wonkhes-covid-19-data-dashboards/
We are testing students (twice) so they can go home to areas that may have more cases than where they are living during term. Which is... interesting.
As we've been over on the site before - the "students caused the second wave" narrative never really had legs even in early October with those terrifying numbers. Bonus graph of the whole pandemic here - the red areas are have more than 1,000 students in termtime.
(Here's the link for that so you can have a play https://public.tableau.com/views/MSOAlatest7/Sheet3 )
The second wave started at the end of August (without students) and has grown ever since.
The second wave started at the end of August (without students) and has grown ever since.
To be clear. Students should not have been brought back on campus this term. It was a silly idea, based on a Treasury unwillingness to countenance any form of sector bailout.
But what I think we have seen is evidence that (most) students have done the right thing, isolated when required to, not taken risks. Our young people deserve a lot of credit for this.
As do the university staff who have done their best to support them.
As do the university staff who have done their best to support them.
