re: Bama student body at 29% Covid positivity rate

My nephew's son 15 yo healthy athletic kid got Covid in July.
Symptoms were 101 fever, body aches & bad cough. The pediatrician tested him to confirm. Doc sent family home without any medication & said "he needs to ride it out. Use OTC meds when needed". They were quarantined for 14 days. No one left home. He is fine now & back to normal.
Interesting-doc said since no one else had any symptoms, the family DID NOT NEED TESTING. None of them got sick.
So young healthy kids can get Covid. But the survival rate is extremely high.

But all we hear is "get tested". Why? If there's no symptoms why get tested?

I'm 57 & have high blood pressure. Called my doc last month at OLOL asked if I needed testing. He asked if I had any symptoms. I said no. He said "no need to get tested".
And if a family who's child had Covid didn't need testing, why does anybody without symptoms need testing?
But Gov Honor Code keeps telling me to get tested. Why? Screw him.
If you don't have symptoms you do not need to be tested!
Sorry for length; it's early.

This is BS. It was a select group of sick students who were tested and STILL was only 29%. Not the overall percentage. People are too stupid to understand percentages and metrics.

Yes but coupled with something else. I don’t downgrade it but we have to move on with our lives. Staying at home, laying in the corner in the fetal position, is only going to ruin our children’s and grandchildren's future with debt. The reason it spreads with college age children is due to the total disregard for it and hey maybe that is the correct path...who knows?

So has the flu year over year. So has SARS. So has swine. Follow Sweden, they chose herd immunity with protecting the elderly and infirm without wrecking the economic. I would like to see the suicide rate post pandemic.

Poor dental hygiene?

How could you actually know this for sure? Please explain.

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Bell's statement reads. "It is disturbing to see statements from that conversation taken out of context. The quoted positivity rate is grossly misleading as presented. The positivity rate attributed to Myron deals with a sub-group of students who identified as symptomatic or exposed to someone with COVID-19. Such samples are in no way reflective of the positivity rate of the campus community

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From the OP link

I've been saying this from the beginning. Several friends are nurses & ER techs. They're embarrassed with the hero bullshite.
But families facing foreclosure bankruptcy & despair are invisible.

Except for the ones that die.

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There have been numerous cases of people catching it more than once.

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You're an idiot. Stop posting. From 4 days ago:

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Shashikiran Umakanth, a clinical investigator of Covid-19 who has been involved in ICMR research projects, said the SARS-CoV-2 virus seems to be persisting in some individuals. “But after about a week or 10 days, we know it is no longer capable of spreading and causing infection in others. The commonly performed tests to diagnose Covid-19 can identify virus particles, but cannot decipher if these particles are live or inactivated,” he said.

Umakanth said there can be confusion if a recent Covid-19 recovery develops fever or cough due to some other viral infection. The dead particles of SARS-Cov-2 can then be detected via a test and interpreted as a case of reinfection even though those particles are ineffective.

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