After the "bad news" stories about college openings that journalists love, the real story now is the number of schools that seem to be making this work. Notre Dame, with 12,000 students and a rocky start, imposed a two-week lockdown; now they have a positivity rate of 1.2% and only about five dozen active cases on campus. As we noted before, Duke University is doing quite well, with aggressive testing and good student compliance with behavioral expectations. Bates College, with nearly 1,800 students in the boondocks of Maine, has had only 2 cases after several weeks of class. Amherst College, far less isolated than Bates, has had a total of 3. No doubt this will be disappointing to those invested in the idea that it was obviously nuts to open a school during a pandemic. But it is good news for students and their families.
ADDENDUM: Someone on Twitter points out that Brandeis, near Boston, is also doing quite well. I'm opening comments for readers to add links to evidence of other schools that are faring well.
