Colleges are exploding with COVID and have lax testing. One school is keeping cases down.

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At Maine's Colby College, students wear masks even when they’re by themselves outside or running laps around a field. And they submit to COVID-19 testing twice a week.

Either way, Colby College President David Greene said the federal guidance was not enough. Rather than only testing students who have symptoms, as some colleges are doing and, Colby’s plan calls for testing everyone. This wider testing is intended to help the college spot asymptomatic carriers, people who have the virus but who aren’t outwardly showing symptoms.

At Colby, more students are on the grounds than normal since international trips were grounded. The administration also scaled back the number of students allowed to live outside of college housing. Without massive parties, he and his friends don’t have to spend so much time cleaning up empty cans or party detritus. The plea from seniors to the rest of the college, he said, goes something like: “This is our final year. Please don’t ruin it for us.”Colby College sophomore Mahika Gupta, 19, left, and junior Annie Sternberg, 20, soak up some rays on campus.Colby’s success is also thanks to its remote location.

As a highly selective college, Colby draws students both nationally and internationally. That means whatever bubble the town had created over the summer would be punctured with the return of students.

 

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What percent of the cases are sick?if you wear a mask outdoors by yourself, you are not smart enough to vote.

What percent of the cases are sick?

Davidson College: currently 0 cases, testing every student every week.

Indoctrination works.

Man you guys love to report the doom and gloom. Can’t report a little good without the bad. “Exploding numbers”. Is that necessary. Your paper is a joke

These practices should apply to EVERY person in the entire US above the age of 2, only MD-certified exceptions.

UNH also tests twice a week

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Help! I find myself alone in my car and this jerk behind the wheel won’t put on his mask!

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