saltsman said:

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Belton Ag said:

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KidDoc said:

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ToxicAG said:

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Texas A&M COVID dashboard has been updated.

https://www.tamu.edu/coronavirus/dashboard/

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Nice to see they are not going to report active cases- just total.

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Yeah that first graph is pretty misleading. It says daily new cases, but looks to be total cases added onto daily.

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I pretty sure these are not total cases added onto each other daily.

If you look at faculty/staff, for example, you can see that it is not cumulative. Some days report new F/S cases (Aug 12, 17, 21), where as the other days do not.

Also, if you look at the table of number of cumulative positive cases for the week of Aug 16 it shows 358. If you add up the numbers shown for each of the days in that week from the graph, it works out.

I believe this graph is what is says it is... Daily new cases.

Does anyone know what organization is performing the TAMU tests. Perhaps the lab is not sending the data to the county health district? Or perhaps the lab is reporting the students permeant address rather than their school address...

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Is is exactly that. If you look below they report the raw test numbers and positive rates per week. The only way to get to those is to have the daily figures in the graph at the top. I'm not sure how anyone could look at that page and think that it was some kind of running total when the text and numbers say otherwise.

As for the county, they said they were going to report A&M numbers but its pretty clear they are not doing that. I have no idea why.

I don't believe they had the numbers to report until today.

There's no reason to assume they lied about including them.

Since it is really unknown what is in the TAMU self-reporting case numbers and how they interact with Brazos county numbers, I suggest a separate topic thread for that data set, call it "A&M Covid cases - like a box of chocolate." Then we can get back to BCS cases on this thread.

student case counts are, largely irrelevant. It's about availability of resources. Case counts, in and of themselves, are pretty worthless.

Every student I have spoken with that has been to an in person class at tamu indicated that the profs have chosen to go all on line from that point forward. Dont think they will need to make a call. We will be all on line shortly regardless. Tenure must be great... hopefully it will be a covid casualty.

Spreadsheet updated

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11DhOiIPQwUQ5teJsvOV_JYp-zDkE4Eq5bQ91fud7y9Q

a three day vacation isn't so bad, is it?

Is any demographic data available regarding who is hospitalized?

No, they aren't releasing that.

because...... why?

77840 lol (Sorority house zip code for those who don't know)

cavscout96 said:

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because...... why?

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because I said so /brazos county

FERPA, HIPPA, take your pick.

jeffk said:

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That hasn't yet stopped them.

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unfortunately....

Too bad, that would go a long way (maybe) to countering the fear that the 400 (student) number is generating among some.

The student I spoke with said that his professor stated that as long as at least ONE person attended F2F that he would be in the classroom F2F to teach. Another anecdotal account I heard from a neighbor was that his classroom attendance was dropping with each meeting. It could be that if students were able to get online and see that the system didn't completely crash then they chose subsequently to attend via online.

It was my understanding that each and every student has the right to make the choice each class period as to whether to attend in person or online. If some students are seeing others out partying then maybe they, themselves are choosing to remain online or are now doing so. It can be for a variety of reasons without it being fear for themselves. Many students travel to see family or hunt on family land in the fall and while some activities are outdoors, I don't blame a student for a little caution in order to give Mom and Dad or Grandpa and Grandma some protection. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom, the student community is large and they all do different things in different ways.

The decision for online only campus wide, though, has to come from the Provost, correct?

Yes while attention is on the partiers, a LOT of students are just trying to be students as best they can and be as careful as they can. And yes, the decision to go online has to come from the Provost...its implied in her regular emails at least.

What fine line?

Oogway said:

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The student I spoke with said that his professor stated that as long as at least ONE person attended F2F that he would be in the classroom F2F to teach. Another anecdotal account I heard from a neighbor was that his classroom attendance was dropping with each meeting. It could be that if students were able to get online and see that the system didn't completely crash then they chose subsequently to attend via online.

It was my understanding that each and every student has the right to make the choice each class period as to whether to attend in person or online. If some students are seeing others out partying then maybe they, themselves are choosing to remain online or are now doing so. It can be for a variety of reasons without it being fear for themselves. Many students travel to see family or hunt on family land in the fall and while some activities are outdoors, I don't blame a student for a little caution in order to give Mom and Dad or Grandpa and Grandma some protection. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom, the student community is large and they all do different things in different ways.

The decision for online only campus wide, though, has to come from the Provost, correct?

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that's what I would have thought.

agrab86 said:

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Active case percentage in Brazos County up to 0.16%.

And naming a group of people with a certain point of view or type of behavior shouldn't be a negative thing, and if they agree with there own views, why would it be considered derogatory. We use the terms liberal, conservative, Democrats, Republicans to describe groups of people with certain views. So why not coronabros or Karens? I'm just asking, not calling anyone that name.

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The accurate comparison would be Libtards, Drumph or Trumpster. That would get closer to coronabros or Karens.

[Way too big. -Staff]