As universities plan for the coming semester, higher education administrators are thinking about what to do about Delta, taking various models into consideration while attempting to keep campuses open for in-person instruction. One small college describes their planning/modeling process:
…administrators believe they can bring the campus reproduction rate below 1 with a combination of vaccination and other measures, including entry testing, weekly surveillance testing for unvaccinated students, and a mask mandate.
Other universities feel that vaccination rates are high enough to avoid such measures.
Read more:
Diep, F. (2021). Vaccination Alone Isn’t Enough to Keep the Virus Under Control This Fall, One Small College Warns. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/vaccination-alone-isnt-enough-to-keep-the-virus-under-control-this-fall-one-small-college-warns