Interesting. I hope it works!
An aside: some academics on social media seem to mainly hope these efforts fail, so they can then say, "I told you so!" Grocery stores and hospitals, among other facilities, have been operating without massive outbreaks; universities present more challenges in some respects, less [than hospitals] in others. What's disappointing about faculty hostility to efforts to reopen universities is the complete indifference to the fact that students overwhelmingly want to be able to come back to campus. Apparently some faculty don't care and I suppose faculty indifference to students shouldn't be news, but it's still discouraging to see. If campuses can't open, it's a tragedy, not an occasion for glee (or armchair idiocy like this from academics with no relevant competence acting like they have deep insight--this guy is sufficiently confused that he thinks [correctly] that Baumol's cost disease applies to higher education, but then claims [falsely] that none of the increase in tuition goes to faculty salaries).
(Thanks to philosopher Gregory Pence [UAB] for the pointer to the NYT article.)
ADDENDUM: Professor Pence writes:
Not the Governor’s idea, but she is taking some credit. We created our own rapid test (before FDA allowed it, to safeguard our patients and docs), partnered with Apple and Google to create our own ap, and used CARES to fund testing of students BEFORE they return. Yeah, two week window is not perfect, but better than not testing them at all . We are also doing sentinel testing of random faculty and students. So far, that rate is less than half of 1%.But high school football in BAMA starts tonight = amplification systems. We shall see.
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