University of Alabama President says there has been an “unacceptable rise” in COVID cases on campus. The problem is the public has no framework or data to understand what “unacceptable” might mean.
Stuart Bell says the “margin for error is shrinking.” Again, no framework to contextualize that, despite repeated requests from faculty, staff, students, parents and journalists.
Full email here, shared to me from a faculty member.
This follows a communications blitz from late Friday afternoon after UA imposed new restrictions but wouldn't say what exactly prompted them montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/202…
All we know at this point is the touted 1% re-entry rate, which seems...outdated, at best, at this point. And that >90% of on-campus quarantine beds were available on Thursday, Aug. 20. Hopefully we'll get more data early this week to give us a better idea of where campus stands
FWIW, student newspaper @TheCrimsonWhite reported out leaks from a meeting between a VP and student leaders on Friday. The VP alluded to a high positivity rate found **among a small group of student who were re-tested after suspected exposure** cw.ua.edu/65562/top-stor…
Then the University, in response to that coverage, said the information taken out of context) was "grossly misleading"
On Thursday evening, UA told me no data would be released until the end of add/drop on Aug. 26, which is the official end of "re-entry testing." But @keelykbrewer rightly pointed out that Pres. Bell the next day said a data dashboard would go live tomorrow. So I guess we'll see!
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