Do colleges students need COVID tests every two days to stay safe? – UB
Either colleges open their doors to students in September or ‘they risk serious financial consequences’
Colleges and universities may need to test students for COVID every two days, and isolate the infected in restricted residence halls, to control campus coronavirus outbreaks, a new study suggests.
Simply asking students to monitor themselves for symptoms such as fevers and coughs was not sufficient for safely reopening campuses this fall, according to a JAMA Network Open report.
“The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses an existential threat to many US residential colleges,” the JAMA researcher wrote. “Either they open their doors to students in September or they risk serious financial consequences.”
The study analyzed a hypothetical start to a semester with 4,990 students without COVID and 10 students with undetected asymptomatic infections.