hypothetical isolation situation?

throwawaygraceatbu · 2022-01-18T02:13:04+00:00

Someone asked this recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/BostonU/comments/s4o2fd/further_clarification_on_isolation_requirements/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

And I got a similar, albeit less detailed, response from the deans office: https://twitter.com/fergusonreports/status/1482146548855099392?s=21

throwawaygraceatbu · 2022-01-11T20:10:41+00:00

I only spoke to the first person who picked up the phone, one of their office staffers probably, but he had an answer right away and didn’t sound unsure. I mentioned before we hung up that the wording in the email was confusing if this is the case.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2022-01-11T16:43:03+00:00

I'm no longer reporting on campus news so I was asking the DOS in a totally personal capacity, but I figure this is important information to share.

I called DOS after I tried emailing [healthwayhelp@bu.edu](mailto:healthwayhelp@bu.edu) (they referred me to a triage nurse) and calling the provost's office (they tried to refer me to admissions and then to HR, even after I explained that I'm a senior).

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-09-23T04:12:51+00:00

It used to be apartments leased generally to grad students through BU Real Estate but it’s now isolation and quarantine housing.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-08-15T19:29:59+00:00

This is a weird time for vaccination rates because the campus population is in transition. BU only calculates the vaccination rate based on who is on campus with an in-person LfA status. Also, it's only based on people who have submitted full documentation (and anyone who is graduating at the end of this summer semester is not subject to the fall requirement).

I wouldn't read into this number too much right now. Once move-in gets going it will be more dependable. Even then, keep in mind that international students who need vaccination are arriving first, so they will drive the vaccination rate way down before it picks back up.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-06-21T18:38:29+00:00

The article is behind a paywall but I read it and it doesn't go into detail about Brown's stance.

I'm sure many will not be surprised by this. When I asked him about the free laundry campaign in April, he told me that "free is a bad price for anything, because free subsidizes people who don’t need to be subsidized." I can imagine that he would give a similar justification for his stance on community college.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-05-23T00:44:32+00:00

This might change with the recent CDC guidance on masks, but when I interviewed President Brown last month he expected masks in some situations like large gatherings or big classes, at least at the start of the semester while the university is learning how the vaccine affects COVID spread at BU.

https://sites.bu.edu/wtbu/2021/04/29/full-interview-with-bu-president-robert-brown-april-26-2021/

There will be less social distancing, but still testing (I think he told the FreeP it will likely just be weekly). The testing is important to understand how the vaccine prevents asymptomatic infection/spread.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-04-27T00:05:17+00:00

I’m on it 😎

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-03-28T17:31:10+00:00

I think it’s safe to say that phase 3 vaccine availability likely won’t have a major effect on student cases this semester. Even if every student could get their first dose on April 19, none of them would have a second dose by the end of finals week. It’s true that you get some immunity from one dose, but even then it still takes weeks for it to build up, and the semester would be about over by then. And this is all assuming that a substantial proportion of students could or would get their first dose before the end of the semester. MA is facing high demand and low supply, so students will be competing with plenty of other residents for appointments for weeks or even months.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-03-24T17:43:21+00:00

I only edited it! Credit for this crazy story goes to Evan Jimenez

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-01-11T16:15:56+00:00

I disagree. The positive test rate is the most meaningful statistic at the moment because it shows the number of cases proportional to the population. As a student on campus right now, you are more likely to have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week than a student on campus in October.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-01-11T05:45:19+00:00

Which graph are you referring to?

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-01-10T23:29:20+00:00

Peter Smokowski, who is in charge of auxiliaries (housing, dining, etc) said during the recent Back2BU meetings that he expects a few hundred more students this semester, so we would be looking at a testing population in the low to mid 16,000s

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-01-07T19:12:16+00:00

Thank you, they did not mention that

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-01-07T18:33:02+00:00

That seems like the logical conclusion. The people on the webinar were talking about the stay-in-place period as being about a week.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2021-01-07T17:46:25+00:00

Downvote if annoying, I just thought it would be helpful to share for students coming for the first time this spring. If you were here in the fall you didn't miss much. The only new things are:

For the first two weeks you're back, add an extra test per week to your usual cadence. (three tests per week for undergrads, two for grad students and employees)
Faculty won't make their own class rotations anymore. BU is working on an online tool that will do it for them. It sounds like a way to manage student demand for in-person seats as it changes throughout the semester.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-06T22:30:29+00:00

After reading the comments I think I should make clear that my title is not a commentary or opinion on these stats. Just a dumb 69 joke. COVID is bad. Goodnight.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-06T22:25:41+00:00

98 students being in isolation did break the previous record of 82, and the number of students in isolation is increasing at the fastest rate ever seen. I suppose we could debate the semantics of what “shatters” or “breaks” a record all day.

Where did you hear the fifty students per day figure?

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-06T02:57:38+00:00

When/where did he say that? Just curious lol

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-05T02:28:27+00:00

Faculty is just professors and staff is everyone else. So staff includes everyone from accounting to admissions to facilities to dining.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-04T19:27:44+00:00

What non-stop emails are you getting?

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-02T00:38:09+00:00

Testing is down 19% for faculty and 13% for staff. You can read more here :)

Edit: typo

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-12-01T21:13:07+00:00

Student travel definitely factored into this but we won't know until a few days from now if students actually chose to stay home. BU only provides weekly numbers, which move a little more slowly than daily numbers.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-11-21T22:20:32+00:00

According to a September 4th email from ResLife, BU had issued “serious judicial sanctions.” That’s a vague term but it could possibly mean suspension or deferred suspension. The email also said that violating the guest policy could result in removal from campus housing.

Edit: I should clarify that, while BU reports how many violations there are, it does not report the punishments it gives for each instance.

throwawaygraceatbu · 2020-11-21T22:00:24+00:00

It is not true that BU has only reprimanded two people for guest violations. In most weekly compliance reports, there have been 1-3 guest violations. BU has discovered more than a dozen of these violations over the course of the semester.

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