@baseballhs posted:Andrew Bostom@andrewbostom1/ Campus C19 update, 10/5/20: Despite ~70K C19+ tests at 50 major universities, barely any reported hospitalizations (i.e., 3), & no deaths. (Tabulated below, with explanation, & more refs following tweet thread)Not sure why you expect it to get worse. Most schools have already had a spike in cases. My son’s school had 500 at one time, now only 15. This does not effect college students the way it does the elderly.
@TPM, you will find Dr Bostom's completely objective COVID research next to his scholarly tweets about Hunter Biden. His extensive survey of 50 colleges (of the 5,300 in the U.S.) counted all hospitalizations from college dashboards... where many don't even report hospitalizations, plus those that report as a percentage (1 in 300 = 0%).
Yes, every rational person knows that 20 year-olds are very unlikely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19. But these schools also have employees to consider; around 1 for every 4-6 students. They are also partners in their communities where those students live, shop, eat, etc. It would be wonderful if there were easy answers to this problem but there aren't any. Losing a year of sports will be personally devastating for many students, but most people who work in higher academics don't hold athletics in that same high regard.