One College Is Containing Covid

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Cornell University, in upstate New York, welcomed around 24,000 people back to campus this fall. The idea of students packed into dorms and mingling in classrooms made many people nervous. But while outbreaks have plagued colleges across the country, Cornell has managed to keep a lid on its Covid cases. In fact, the college’s test-positivity rate has been among the lowest of any college or university in the country doing large-scale testing. Reporter Emma Court looked into how the school has done it.

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0:30.5	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 237 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:40.7	Today's main story, the risk of COVID-19 transmission is high on college campuses,
0:47.3	where students live in close quarters and may avoid following social distancing rules.
0:53.1	But one upstate New York University has stayed open
0:57.0	and managed to control its COVID cases. But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:10.0	Infections in the U.S. increased by 1.3% on Friday,
1:15.5	with Iowa, North Dakota, Michigan, and Colorado, seeing the biggest single-day rises.
1:22.4	That's according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.
1:28.0	Yesterday, new cases passed 126,000, a global record for a single nation.
1:36.3	Johnson & Johnson is about to start clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa,
1:41.6	after getting regulatory approval, according to the co-chair of the study in the
1:46.4	country. Meanwhile, scientists monitoring wastewater in one region of the country detected spikes
1:53.7	of the coronavirus in the last three weeks. The government is concerned that a lack of compliance
2:00.6	with health guidelines may trigger a second wave.
2:05.0	Finally, France posted a record number of new virus cases, as the nation's health minister, Olivier Veron, warned that a violent second wave of the illness is sweeping the country.
2:18.4	He said virus patients now occupy more than 85% of French hospitals' initial intensive care facilities.
2:27.5	Europe is battling a new surge in the virus, with France starting a second lockdown just last week.
2:37.3	What could you do if your data was working for you and not against you?
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