[cardcrimson]

Fwiw, in an email today the Stanford admin said there have been ~400 student positive tests and ~300 faculty/staff/postdoc positive tests in the past week.

For context, in the 2020-21 academic year, at the height of the pandemic (and with mandatory weekly testing for everyone) there typically were 20-30 student and 10 faculty/staff/postdoc positive tests per week.

Omicron may be less severe on average, but with those case rates it would be incredibly irresponsible to hold large non-essential gatherings indoors in person.

Has even one of those 700 people been hospitalized?

I don't think much can be done to stop omicron from spreading. The only question is how long do you want it to take to do so? The risk is people being hospitalized (or worse), which thankfully isn't happening at anywhere near the same rate as it did for delta and previous mutations, doubly so among the vaccinated.

Are you sure flop? Reuters disagrees with your assessment. And this is outdated news by now: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-chi...022-01-07/

[cardcrimson]

Fwiw, in an email today the Stanford admin said there have been ~400 student positive tests and ~300 faculty/staff/postdoc positive tests in the past week.

For context, in the 2020-21 academic year, at the height of the pandemic (and with mandatory weekly testing for everyone) there typically were 20-30 student and 10 faculty/staff/postdoc positive tests per week.

Omicron may be less severe on average, but with those case rates it would be incredibly irresponsible to hold large non-essential gatherings indoors in person.

Has even one of those 700 people been hospitalized?

I don't think much can be done to stop omicron from spreading. The only question is how long do you want it to take to do so? The risk is people being hospitalized (or worse), which thankfully isn't happening at anywhere near the same rate as it did for delta and previous mutations, doubly so among the vaccinated.

Are you sure flop? Reuters disagrees with your assessment. And this is outdated news by now: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-chi...022-01-07/