Posted on 05/06/2020 12:35:28 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said Tuesday that the university is going to begin mass testing students for the novel coronavirus as a major step toward resuming on-campus courses in the fall.
The school’s experimental “Return to Learn” program will begin May 11, when UC San Diego starts giving self-administered tests to 5,000 students who are living in campus housing.
If the program works, campus officials plan to test about 65,000 students, faculty and staff on a monthly basis.
UC San Diego will become the first campus in the University of California system and one of the first in the U.S. to broadly test students for the coronavirus — an undertaking it is well-suited to do. It operates UC San Diego Health, which includes two major hospitals and many clinics, all which are tied to one of the largest medical research programs in the U.S.
Read the full story on LATimes.com.
Will other colleges do the same? Like USC or UCLA?
So, are these tests going to be socially weighted, like SAT scores for admission?
Testing for both active infextion and antigens is a good idea.
Billion$ for testing, not Trillion$ for nuttin’.
This might be marginally helpful in weeding out a few sick students. But, really, are they going to test all of them every day? A negative test result is interesting, but it has pretty damned short shelf life of being interesting. It ain’t like testing negative for diabetes. This is an infectious disease. Today’s new “positive” person was a “negative” person a week ago. The liberal/left/media mantra now is TESTING, TESTING, TESTING. But, come on, you can’t run a university by testing 30,000 students/faculty/staff every single day or every other day. The logistics of that are absurd..
Testing for temperatures every day is impractical too and since you can transmit before you get sick, not close to fool proof.
But it will get the initial group of kids who have it put aside for a while and that will help.
I’m betting 50% or more of them will be shown to have the virus. Most of them will Report having no symptoms or symptoms of mild they thought it was something else.
Of course the rational response to such a finding should be that the risks of severe symptoms or deaths from this virus is actually much less of a danger than one thought - particularly for people who are not old and/or in bad health.
But when it comes to the colleges, I hope they react to it with panic, and push all the students back into online education and away from their indoctrination camps.
I can only imagine the potential litigation that will follow once the first kid becomes sick related to the variables you mentioned in your post. And frankly anything that cripples the university system if fine with me.
Only the antigen test is of use. Total.waste.of.money to test for covid.
Whatever the number that I have tested positive for the antibodies they will no doubt be shocked and surprised that that many have had it in the virus has been around that long because the left is still operating on the narrative that the virus didn’t exist in the US until sometime in early March, which anyone with a few brain cells can figure out is very unlikely if not impossible.
The number of tests that can be produced is not unlimited. The more of them that are used by a virtue signaling university the fewer will be available to those really needing them.
It will be interesting if a pattern develops between positives and any “disadvantaged” groups and how that is handled or hidden.
This is likely less about health than liability.
The House needs to get its gutless butt back in session and the liability issue needs to be sorted by Congress. STAT.
I wonder if trial lawyers are a big reason the House is still AWOL...
Professors over 65 yo and overweight students need not return will soon be thenew normal of discrimination.
Include antibody testing...those students are now immune and can return to campus.
Testing without a set of “What if...” plans, makes no sense.
This might be marginally helpful in weeding out a few sick students. But, really, are they going to test all of them every day? A negative test result is interesting, but it has pretty damned short shelf life of being interesting.
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I think UCSD wants to test every month...
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