Stanford joins other elite universities in requiring weekly Covid testing for all students

[Hoodat]

Stanford joins other elite universities in requiring weekly Covid testing for all students

Stanford joins a growing list of colleges that have required weekly tests for vaccinated students, including Brown, Harvard and Princeton.

Wilson Wong   |   Aug. 12, 2021, 12:15 PM EDT

Stanford University announced Wednesday it would require weekly Covid testing for students, regardless of their vaccination status.

In a message to students, school officials revealed new safety protocols on campus beginning Aug. 15, citing the surge of the delta variant of the coronavirus across the country.

Returning students will be mandated to continue to wear face masks and get vaccinated, as well as undergo weekly testing for the coronavirus, regardless whether they are vaccinated or not, the school said. Students are expected to receive their test results within 24 hours.  .  .  .

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stanford-will-require-weekly-covid-19-testing-all-students-regardless-n1276660


While I may disagree with the need for such policy, I applaud Stanford for applying it equally and recognizing the scientific fact that jabbed individuals can still be carriers of the disease capable of infecting others.  This will also present the opportunity to compile statistical data on percentage of infection among the jabbed.

[PeteS in CA]

OK, 1. Stanford and/or surrounding medical services outlets are going to come up with over 17,000 Covid tests a week? 2. Over 32,000 a week if academic and administrative staff are also similarly required? 3. And Stanford and/or surrounding medical services outlets have the extra capacity to test and extra 17,000 or 32,000 people a week?

I think this will collapse under its own logistic burden. But since most Stanford students and staff probably voted Biden, I don't mind at all their being over Bidenesque panic-pandering.

[Hoodat]

The thing that gets me is that they waited until the last second to do this.  My kid's school did the same thing with masks.  All summer, they told us that there would be no mask requirement for the 2021/2022 school year.  But two weeks out, they suddenly announced that masks would be required.  They are also now hinting at mandatory testing and possibly mandatory vaccination (at a school that includes autism spectrum students) once the FDA approves the experimental vaccine for anyone below the age of 12.

Stanford's policy is fairer than most.  But they should have decided this back in January instead of waiting until now.  That would have given students the option of transferring to better schools like Georgia Tech.

[The_Reader_David]

As NR noted, the NFL is doing a better job than elite universities in encouraging vaccinations:  they only require weekly COVID tests and masks for unvaccinated players.

[Hoodat]

As NR noted, the NFL is doing a better job than elite universities in encouraging vaccinations:  they only require weekly COVID tests and masks for unvaccinated players.

I thought the objective was to prevent people from getting sick - not to get people vaccinated.  Vaccinated people pose a greater risk at infecting other people than do unvaccinated people.