The University of Georgia's highly negligent reopening plan
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- “in-person instruction and the presence of students in Athens is likely to lead to hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of COVID-19 victims, with collateral health impacts on Athens-Clarke County, its hospitals, and the region at large.”
needs:
- “testing more than 6,000 students, faculty, and staff per day as is needed to manage a COVID outbreak,”
- “provide testing data daily so we can actively surveille and anticipate the need to pivot,”
- “operating our own contact tracing program to manage outbreaks”
“UGA’s plan to test, at most, 300 non-randomized people per day is inadequate even for surveillance. It is certainly far too low to have sufficient data to identify clusters and isolate infected individuals.”
“Northeastern University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been able to test tens of thousands of people per day.”
“UGA disingenuously claims that it cannot release daily information on the number of tests conducted and number of positive test results because of legal constraints – despite the fact that Georgia Tech and four other sister universities in Georgia are doing so.”
UGA wants to depend on the GA Dept of Public Health who was already overwhelmed before the students returned, so there wouldn't be any contact tracing.