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Innumerable places and activities have been highlighted that the main sources of coronavirus transmission, fromUsing an elevator Tosinging at church. However, there is a potential covid hotspot that is so likely to spread the virus that the experts now say that staying safely here would require several coronaviruses tests per week: university campuses. In a study published in July 31Jama network open, Researchers from Yale School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital recommendStudents returning to campus should getTested for coronavirus every two days to limit future epidemics.

In the study, researchers estimated a theoretical population of 5,000 students, of which 4990 do not have coronavirus infections, while 10Asymptomatic cases they did not know. The use of a predictive model, researchers have found that if students have been tested for the virus once every seven days, an average of 121 students would be new candidates for isolation every day, including 108 or 90 percent would be positive for the virus. If the same student body has been tested for all coronavirusesof them Days, only 76 would be isolated candidates, of which 28 would be COVID positive. Students have to takeDaily tests for the virus, 116 students would be isolated candidates, but only 21 of them would have positive results.

As a result, the authors of the study recommend that for colleges toreopen safely for teaching in person This year, schools should "require screening every 2 days, uncompromising vigilance, and continued attention to good prevention practices. But it remains to be seen which institutions as appropriate, are willing to implement these measures, which would likely be costs and prohibitive time.

However, without regular tests, the result could be catastrophic. According to A28 July ReportThe New York Times, more6,600 coronavirus case have already been traced to 270 colleges in the United States, someReporting schools up to 449 infections From the pandemic has started.

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Even with the potential of many university campuses to become rotating plates for new infections, some experts say they should reopen again. In a virtual press conference with Connecticut Gov.Ned lathe August 3,Anthony Fauci, MD, said everyone to come back to a university campus should beTested before arrival, On arrival, and potentially in quarantine for 14 days.

"I think if they maintain the guidelines that are put together for people who come back, they should be good," said Fuci. And for more insight into potential coronavirus centers, seeThese two states become the worst hotspots of Covid in the United States.