Spring breakers may have brought COVID-19 back to their communities, study says
Source: ABC News
As colleges and universities make decisions about returning to in-person classes this fall, they may be able to keep surrounding communities safe by discouraging student travel during college breaks.
That's the conclusion of new research that reveals what many had already suspected: Spring break travel may have fueled the spread of the coronavirus back in March, when the pandemic dramatically ramped up in the United States.
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Using the data, they were able to pinpoint which cell signals seemed to go "home" to college campuses. They then tracked changes in their location during time periods known to correlate with their respective university-sanctioned spring breaks, to evaluate where students traveled and how they got there.
In the weeks following spring break, many colleges saw a rise in the number of students testing positive for the novel coronavirus. In many of these schools, the annual spring break between the end of February and early March was found to roughly precede the cancellation of classes due to the coronavirus that rolled across the country beginning in late March.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/spring-breakers-brought-covid-19-back-communities-study/story?id=71409325&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_three_posts_card_hed
This is kind of "no shit Sherlock", but at least there's now hard data backing up what everyone knew would happen.
George II
(67,782 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 25, 2020, 10:45 AM - Edit history (1)
Yes, it may be behind a paywall, but many things that are good are worth paying for (like real journalists for instance).
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-spread.html
(edited to clean up link)
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)1) It stops all the interlocking big companies from tracking you and linking you to your political cohort and other personal patterns.
2) It helps people get over the paywall who have cookies turned off.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)help.
I think it means delete everything after the question mark on a copied link.
Is that it?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Trim a link, try it. If it works, trim more and try again. If it fails, go back the previous trim and post that.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213615353
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213629496
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)Thank you.
jayfish
(10,039 posts)Say it ain't so.
LeftInTX
(25,552 posts)At the time, people were looking at travel from hot spots such as Europe, China, SF, Seattle, New York, Disneyland etc.
Unlike the college group that went to Mexico, this was from families traveling in cars and the spread was sparse and more of a seed here and there.
I think no one was thinking about Covid 19 on the ski slopes. Colorado was an small early "hot spot" and had dozens of undetected cases by Feb 15th.
The route back to South Texas often involves stays and stops in Texas panhandle towns. A county commissioner in Moore County is also a doctor. He put two and two together and started testing the entire county. For awhile, sparsely populated Moore County had the highest rate per capita of any county in Texas.
Of course this article is "no shit sherlock". The skiing vacations are just an example of how this unknowingly spread.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)Wait, we all did.
3Hotdogs
(12,406 posts)Yeah, that'll happen.