University officials at colleges in the U.S. are responding to a jump in COVID cases among students and faculty, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The report said some 779 students and faculty at the University of Virginia have been diagnosed with the virus, which prompted school officials to urge students to remain in their dorms unless they were attending class.
A spokesman told the paper that social gatherings at the university had been canceled until the end of the month. The report also said cases increased “five-fold” at Notre Dame. The school averages 34 new cases a day, the report said.
“Students were adhering to the protocols all day, then they would get back to a common area in their residence hall and they relax and they may be eating together in groups of five or six,” a university spokesman told the paper. “So we took the measure of restricting dining Hall capacity even further.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that more than a quarter of colleges in the U.S. are allowing some form of in-person learning this spring. NPR reported many schools have learned from last year and will not offer a Spring Break this year.
TRENDPOST: While the article reported the spike in “cases,” there was not a single word on the number of virus deaths among college students or a mention of the number of those infected with the virus who will require hospitalization.
Why?
Because among people aged 1 to 20, the recovery rate is 99.997 percent, thus counting how many students died from the virus add up to very few.
According to the most recent data, in the U.S., 711 people between the ages of 1 to 24 died of the virus out of a population in that age group of some 110 million. Thus, the percent of COVID deaths among that age group is the grand total of 0.000646 percent.
Since schools closed down a year ago to date, the monthly average of COVID deaths in the 1-24 age group is 0.0000538 percent.
Yet, despite these minuscule numbers, young peoples’ lives have been crushed by politicians and other “authorities” who have forced them to lock down, mask up, and socially-distance.
TREND FORECAST: When universities began closing down in February and March and students went to online learning, we forecast that many college towns would become ghost towns… Rust Belt 2.0 cities.
On the upside, when the COVID War ends, this locked-down, pent-up energy age group will be the spark that ignites the “Roaring 2020s.” As we had noted, astute marketers and OnTrendspreneurs® will capitalize on this trend by providing products, services, sounds, and styles to appeal to this “Roaring” demographic.
