The new rules for swine flu
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 12:33AM ARTICLE: The New Back-to-School Ritual: Quarantines, By ROBBIE BROWN, New York Times, September 4, 2009
Interesting college weapon: the Swine Flu Dorm.
This is aggressive:
The residents of Turman South receive free meals, do not attend class, and travel to the pharmacy in a van they call the Flying Pig. Linens are changed daily. A staff member brings grocery bags of Tamiflu, granola, sports drinks, soup and thermometers. The goal is preventing the infected from sniffling and hacking their way into an epidemic.
There are now more than 2,000 swine flu victims on college campuses, according to an American College Health Association survey. And as colleges welcome students back this month, they are keeping those infected with the H1N1 virus at a safe distance. On top of dispensing face masks, circulating lists of warning signs and encouraging contagious students to stay home, many campuses are roping off sick-student-only zones.
Already we see new rules on this one.
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