Anyone worried about the student getting sick from Covid?

[fourisenough]

My DD, a college junior, just moved from our home in the Midwest into her college apartment in a current COVID hotspot in the US. She is a nursing major and we have been told their clinicals will be face-to-face this year, though most classes will be remote/online. In addition to her coursework, she has just taken a position at the large regional hospital in her county as a patient care tech. It will be excellent experience, though not without risk.
 

She is super careful about masking and distancing in normal life, and in the hospital, if she has any COVID patient contact, she will be in full PPE. Since she intends to work as a nurse immediately upon graduation, I think it is imperative that we support her getting the appropriate education and work experience. Obviously, there is some fear, but with precautions, I think it is safe enough to carry-on. 
 

I am glad that she’s in an apartment with just one other student and, as an upperclassman with a serious boyfriend, she isn’t inclined to go socialize and party in a large group. She’s taking this very seriously. We likely won’t see her until Thanksgiving or possibly even Christmas. We don’t want to travel there and it wouldn’t be safe for her to fly home (our pod includes next-door  neighbors who are expecting a baby in October and grandparents in their mid-70’s). 

[teachermom2834]

My college student never returned home during this. He stayed in the college city in FL and has worked full time retail and socialized with a small group. So we have been away from him since the onset of the pandemic and all the uncertainty, his career track job loss during the shutdown that has not and probably will not return, riots in his neighborhood during the protests, and then the increase of infection in his city.

It has been rough and I have been worried about him. The list of things to worry about is long and actually becoming infected with Covid isn't the worst of it for me (very possible he already was as he was quite sick for a long time in March and his job involved interacting with frequent tourists from NY especially). I am more worried about how the general fallout will impact him as far as school and job prospects go. I am grateful he is not on campus so a shutdown won't leave him without someplace to live. I would worry about that. The uncertainty of the whole situation produces the greatest anxiety for me. It is more the fallout from Covid than the particular chance he will become gravely ill.

Of course, I am a little worried but I worry about alot of things. I do fuss at him to get a flu shot every year because he just doesn't need to miss class, etc. so the general worry of getting sick and that interfering with his coursework is always one for me. 

[littlebug42]

My rising sophomore has all online classes this semester.   She was given an out when it came to requiring her to live on campus for year 2.  She has an apartment with one roommate so that she can be as distanced as possible.  Her sister and Dad are high risk so we will play it by ear on if she comes home for holidays, depending on where we are at that point.  

[elegantlion]

This page from UNC Chapel Hill is informative. In the last week, there have been 9 students with a positive diagnosis, which is lower than previous weeks. It could be helpful if other universities adopted something like this. https://carolinatogether.unc.edu/dashboard/

Regular students start arriving on campus this week, apparently. 

 

[whitestavern]

On 8/4/2020 at 8:19 AM, elegantlion said:

This page from UNC Chapel Hill is informative. In the last week, there have been 9 students with a positive diagnosis, which is lower than previous weeks. It could be helpful if other universities adopted something like this. https://carolinatogether.unc.edu/dashboard/

Regular students start arriving on campus this week, apparently. 

 

 

Saw a video earlier today with a group of UNC-CH sorority girls doing in person rush. No masks, no social distancing. Head of UNC is livid, as are many of the students.