The Tricky Business Of Coronavirus Testing On College Campuses

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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We hit the road with NPR Education Reporter Elissa Nadworny. She's been on a weekslong road trip to get an up-close view of how colleges across the U.S. are handling the pandemic. On today's show, she tells us how one university has been using mass testing to fight the spread of the coronavirus on its campus. It's a strategy that's run into some challenges, namely, student behavior.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.3	Hey everybody, Maddie Sify here with NPR Education Reporter, Alyssa Nadwarni.
0:09.6	Welcome Alyssa, first time on the show.
0:12.0	Hi, I can't.
0:13.8	I've like seriously haven't wanted to be on the show for so long.
0:16.4	I'm really glad to be here.
0:18.0	Yes, our time has come Alyssa, finally.
0:20.2	Here we are.
0:21.2	Alright, I know that you and your producer, Lauren Magaki, are in the middle of a kind of
0:25.1	college coronavirus road trip visiting campuses all over the country during the pandemic.
0:30.9	What have you been seeing, Alyssa?
0:33.5	So we've been to more than a dozen colleges in nine different states.
0:37.6	And one thing that we've seen everywhere is coronavirus.
0:41.6	Every college we've visited has had cases.
0:43.9	Makes sense, yeah.
0:44.9	We started at the University of Georgia watching students move in.
0:48.4	And in that week we had traveled north to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
0:52.5	where they had had outbreaks on campus and we're shutting everything down.
0:56.5	So there we watch students move out of the dorm.
0:59.0	Yeah, okay.
1:00.0	Alright, so how are they approaching testing?
1:02.1	Well, the biggest difference has been testing for coronavirus.
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