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The manifold effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our society and lifestyles are unprecedented by any recent historical events. To shed some light on this modern phenomenon, and demonstrate the diverse analytical perspectives we value in the Brown Healthcare Investment Group, we are presenting a virtual seminar to break down COVID-19 from a scientific, public health, investment, and macroeconomic perspective. Tune in on Monday, September 7th at 7pm with the following information:
Meeting ID: 852 2496 3539
Passcode: 5dFfaA
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BHIG Presents: COVID-19 Perspectives
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Jonathan R Arditi
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September 7, 2020
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Each day for the first week of Quiet Period for undergraduates and quarantine for graduate students (Sept. 2-9), Brown invites students, faculty and staff to participate in a virtual challenge for a chance to win a prize from the Brown University Bookstore.
Share your submission, along with your Brown email address, via Instagram direct message or email at browntakescare@brown.edu. Entries must be shared no later than 10 a.m. EST three days after they have been announced. Winners will be chosen at random. You do not have to be on campus to participate.
Today’s challenge:
What Are You Reading?
Tell (or show!) us what you’re currently reading or the best book you read this summer. Send us your recommendation (plus your Brown email address) and we’ll add it to a reading list on care.brown.edu. You’ll be entered to win a Brown water bottle and a Brown Takes Care stuffed animal.
Go to the Brown Takes Care website for more details on how to enter — click on the Learn More link below.
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Quiet Period Virtual Challenge: Day 3
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Brown Takes Care
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September 4, 2020
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Each day for the first week of Quiet Period (Sept. 2-9), Brown invites students, faculty and staff to participate in a virtual challenge for a chance to win a prize from the Brown University Bookstore.
Share your submission, along with your Brown email address, via Instagram direct message or email at browntakescare@brown.edu. Entries must be shared no later than 10 a.m. EST three days after they have been announced. Winners will be chosen at random. You do not have to be on campus to participate.
Today’s challenge:
Brown Bingo, Pop Culture Edition
For today’s challenge, we’ve put together a bingo card with the titles of varying forms of media that feature Brown alums, include mentions of Brown or were created by a Brown community member. Get bingo by figuring out who or what we’re referring to in each square — fill out a row of four plus the free space, or the entire card, if you can — then share your answers (plus your Brown email address) via email at browntakescare@brown.edu or Instagram direct message.
Go to the Brown Takes Care website for more details on how to enter — click on the Learn More link below.
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Quiet Period Virtual Challenge: Day 2
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September 3, 2020
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Following the conclusion of the summer pilot phase for our routine COVID-19 testing program, the University launched an even more comprehensive fall testing program on Monday, Aug. 24. I write today with an initial update to the community on our results to date, as students and employees approved to be on campus continue to visit our two testing locations with the start of the fall term approaching.
Since Aug. 24, we have enrolled in the testing program 6,375 members of the Brown community who are studying, working or living on campus as part of our phased return to in-person operations. By the end of the day on Tuesday, Sept. 1, we had completed approximately 6,000 tests at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center (OMAC) and One Davol Square testing sites. As of that same timeframe, results for more than 5,400 of those tests had been returned, with the others still to be processed.
Out of those approximately 5,400 tests, we have had a total of five positive results. Among those five, some of these positive results represent not newly detected cases, but prior infections of COVID-19 diagnosed at earlier points within the past 90 days — during that timeframe after diagnosis, a person can shed virus particles that are detected by a previous test, even though the individual is no longer contagious. (And consistent with CDC guidance, individuals who test positive should generally not be tested for the next 90 days.)
While the low rate of positive asymptomatic tests is reassuring, it is by no means an indication that our individual or community vigilance with regard to health and safety measures should relax. It is an indication that the efforts we are all making every day -- wearing masks, washing our hands, maintaining social distancing, staying home when sick or exposed, participating in the testing program -- are working and that we need to continue those efforts to best protect ourselves, the Brown community, and our broader Providence and Rhode Island communities as well.
In general, the feedback we have received regarding the testing sites and process itself has been positive, and we have continued to make improvements based on participant feedback and suggestions. We have also been monitoring the timeliness of results closely. The Broad Institute picks up test samples from both of our testing sites twice a day, and those samples arrive in their Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab facility in the late afternoon or evening on the same day each test is conducted. For the most part, the Broad Institute has delivered results within 24 hours of the sample arriving at the lab -- so typically with 24 to 36 hours following the test. That is consistent with what we anticipated but remains a metric of success that we will assess on a daily basis.
As some participants are aware, we have some challenges with the online scheduling process. A significant system update to the Healthy at Work / School web application was implemented this week, and we believe that challenges to the scheduling process have been resolved. Some of these were related to the change in testing cadence from the summer pilot, when we were sampling the population and selecting participants at random for tests -- as opposed to the fall program, through which all participants are tested either once or twice a week.
Concurrent with the launch of the testing program, we are also in the latter stages of finalizing a public dashboard that will share data on testing results and the prevalence of the virus on campus. We look forward to sharing that dashboard with the full community shortly.
In the interim, you can find additional details and a growing set of FAQs on the Testing & Tracing section of the Healthy Brown website at https://healthy.brown.edu/testing-tracing.
I want to thank all students, faculty and staff who have participated in routine testing to date for their diligence in completing the symptom tracker, scheduling and taking tests, and for their patience as we work through the successful launch of a program with significant scale and complexity. Similarly, I deeply appreciate the efforts of the many colleagues at Brown who are working hard every day to support the program for all participants.
Sincerely,
Russell C. Carey
Executive Vice President, Planning and Policy
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Each day for the first week of Quiet Period (Sept. 2-9), Brown invites students, faculty and staff to participate in a virtual challenge for a chance to win a prize from the Brown University Bookstore.
Share your submission, along with your Brown email address, via Instagram direct message or email at browntakescare@brown.edu. Entries must be shared no later than 10 a.m. EST three days after they have been announced. Winners will be chosen at random. You do not have to be on campus to participate.
Today’s challenge:
Quiet Period Haikus
Express your thoughts on the fall semester, Quiet Period or anything else related to living with COVID-19, in the form of a haiku. A quick refresher: haikus are three-line poems with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven in the middle.
Go to the Brown Takes Care website for more details on how to enter to win a Brown sweatshirt. Click on the Learn More link below.
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Quiet Period virtual challenges begin today!
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Brown Takes Care
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September 2, 2020
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Join the newly formed Brown American Red Cross Club for our interest meeting tomorrow (9/2) at 8 PM ET! Come learn about our virtual volunteer activities, opportunities for national leadership and potential work in response to COVID-19 and disaster relief operations. Below is the link to the Zoom meeting. Please email brownamericanredcross@brown.edu with any questions. See you all tomorrow!
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Brown American Red Cross Zoom Intro Call
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This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown.
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The University has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit brought by students seeking reimbursement of tuition, fees, and room and board following the University’s decision to close campus in March and transition exclusively to online learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The motion, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Aug. 24, seeks dismissal on the grounds that the students’ complaint failed to state a claim. “Teaching and learning for the final weeks of the semester took a different form — as it had to — but that change does not give rise to cognizable legal claims,” the University’s dismissal motion states.
In the complaint, the students argue that the University failed to fulfill its “contract” with students when it transitioned classes online and then “unjustly enriched” itself with tuition revenue that should have been returned to students. They argue that the quality of the education they received online fell short of the in-person experience they paid for.
But the University rejects the idea that additional reimbursements are in order.
“While few aspects of our lives resemble life before the pandemic, the core value of a Brown degree remains unchanged,” University spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald.
The plaintiffs failed to identify “any contractual term that obligates Brown to provide in-person, on-campus instruction,” according to the motion to dismiss. “What Brown agrees to provide in return for tuition is up to five courses of instruction per semester — with no promise as to the mode of instruction — plus the accompanying credits toward earning a degree (if the student receives passing grades),” says the motion. “Brown met that obligation, and Plaintiffs do not allege otherwise.”
The University disputes the plaintiffs’ claim that it unfairly benefited from the transition to online learning. According to the motion, the transition increased, rather than decreased, Brown’s costs. The plaintiffs “point to no purported cost savings to Brown,” the motion states, “and they ignore the obvious additional cost Brown had to incur to continue operations during a pandemic.”
The complaint was initially filed under the alias John Doe April 30. Two more students have since joined the lawsuit and the names of all three plaintiffs have been made public: Hyun Choi ’21, Anna House ’20 and Amy Pham ’23. Choi and House declined to comment, and directed The Herald to their lawyer, Hagens Berman Associate Whitney Siehl. Pham did not respond to emails and messages requesting comment.
The University issued credits or refunds for 50 percent of students’ room-and-board fees for the semester adjusted based on the level of parent contribution. This partial refund, the plaintiffs claim, is insufficient.
Colleges and universities nationwide are facing similar legal challenges from students, alums and parents who argue they are owed partial tuition and fee refunds for semesters cut short in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Seattle-based firm representing the named plaintiffs in the complaint against Brown has filed similar suits against more than a dozen other schools, including Harvard and Georgetown University, according to Siehl.
Online classes pale in comparison to the on-campus learning experience, Siehl wrote in an email to The Herald. “We will vigorously oppose Brown’s motion to dismiss the complaint,” she added.
While understanding the need for campus closure to safeguard community health, the plaintiffs argue that students deserved more of their money back when campus was shuttered in March. “We believe all students are entitled to fair tuition and fee reimbursements and intend to hold Brown accountable,” Siehl wrote.
But after being forced to close campus, the administration made provisions to fulfill the University’s mission, according to the dismissal motion. Faculty continued to teach, students continued to take classes and a quality education was still offered, the motion claims.
All three named plaintiffs completed the semester and earned the expected credits toward their degrees. House graduated while Choi and Pham have now re-enrolled in Brown for the fall, according to the motion.
The University’s motion also pointed to a broader legal context in which courts have recognized that universities deserve some autonomy when it comes to decisions related to education and scholarship.
Deadlines for further briefing obligations have been extended following a motion jointly filed Aug. 28 by the students’ and University’s lawyers. The students’ lawyers now have until Sept. 15 to file in opposition to the University’s dismissal motion.
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Five out of 5,400 COVID-19 test results of Brown community members were positive as of Sept. 1.
6,375 members of the Brown community who are studying, living or working on campus were enrolled in the University’s testing program, which began Aug. 24, according to a community wide email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 sent Wednesday.
By the end of Tuesday, Sept. 1, the program completed “approximately 6,000 tests” at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center and Jewelry District testing sites, of which 5,400 have been returned as results.
Community members enrolled in the program receive routine testing either once or twice a week, depending on whether they are classified as high contact or medium contact, The Herald previously reported. The five tests corresponded to results from five different community members. The email did not specify the exact dates when the tests that delivered positive results were administered, only that the testing period was between Aug. 24 and Sept 1.
Only 10 of the tests were “indeterminate,” according to University spokesperson Brian Clark. Indeterminate results are tests that could not be processed for various reasons.
“Some of the positive results represent prior infections of COVID-19 over the past 90 days, during which time a person can shed virus particles that are subsequently picked up by the test, even though the individual is no longer contagious,” Carey wrote in the email. “Consistent with CDC guidance, when an individual tests positive through routine or other testing, they will not be tested for the next 90 days.”
Carey also wrote that administrators have “experienced challenges with the online scheduling process,” causing problems for community members when signing up for a test. He attributed some of these challenges to a system update in Verily, the 3rd party vendor that schedules the University’s tests. That update took place Tuesday night.
Other challenges “have been related to the change in testing cadence from the summer pilot, when we were sampling the population and selecting participants at random for tests, to the fall when all participants are tested either once or twice a week,” he wrote.
The Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collects tests from the two testing sites twice a day. The samples arrive at the laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the evening of the day they were collected, Carey wrote.
“While the low rate of positive asymptomatic tests is reassuring, it is by no means an indication that our individual or community vigilance with regard to health and safety measures should relax,” Carey wrote.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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The United States Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to maintain a two-witness or notary requirement for mail-in ballots in Rhode Island. This provision had been suspended in July due to coronavirus concerns.
Civil liberties groups, the Rhode Island Secretary of State and many voters have celebrated the Aug. 13 court victory, while state Republican Party members have argued that the process for removing the requirement subverted usual rules.
The ruling allows the Ocean State to preserve its July agreement with advocacy groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause Rhode Island and the League of Women Voters — to eliminate the witness requirements.
The advocacy groups argued that the requirement is unnecessary and dangerous, given COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.
In its denial of the Republican-led stay, the court argued that “the applicants lack(ed) a cognizable interest in the State’s ability to ‘enforce its duly enacted’ laws” since state officials agree with the provision’s suspension. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Neil M. Gorsuch would have granted the application.
The Supreme Court’s decision has been lauded by some groups across the state. Advocacy groups, who led the charge to temporarily remove the notary requirement, are among the most vocal proponents. The Rhode Island Secretary of State, who had submitted the consent decree resolving the matter in late July, has also applauded the decision.
“It would put people at risk and therefore, should be suspended during the time of a pandemic,” Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU told The Herald.
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea described the requirement as unreasonable, stating that “your health should never be a price of admission for your democracy.” Secretary Gorbea, who supported the suit, emphasized the importance of the decision. “This was a really great victory for voters in Rhode Island and throughout the U.S. because the case is already being used as precedent,” Gorbea told The Herald.
The Rhode Island Republican Party, which filed the emergency application to the high court with the Republican National Committee, registered disappointment and surprise at what they described as an “unusual decision.”
Sue Cienki, the Rhode Island Republican Party Chairperson, said the party took issue with the way the provisions were removed. Cienki argued that, according to Rhode Island law, only the General Assembly has the right to change election law. She believes that the consent decree and eventual high court ruling skirted the legislative process needed to make such a change.
Cienki pointed to a decision made earlier this summer concerning Alabama election law as an example of precedent. In that case, the Supreme Court held that similar security provisions in Alabama were constitutional.
Secretary Gorbea disagreed with these claims. “We are in a time of a pandemic; there are all sorts of laws that are being put on hold right now to protect the safety of Rhode Islanders. While the legislature was not able to pass the law in the time period that it had, they certainly didn’t file any position contrary to what we were doing,” Gorbea said, adding, “we need to give people options to keep everybody safe.”
Furthermore, Gorbea said that the difference between the Rhode Island and Alabama cases was that state officials in Rhode Island did not oppose the changes. She argued that this made the circumstances different.
Characterizing the ramifications of the decision as “insane,” Cienki said that R.I. GOP “believe (that) in 1978 … the General Assembly passed these security provisions because there was mail ballot fraud.” According to Cienki, ballot fraud was one of the primary concerns behind the Republican Party’s decision to go to court.
John Marion, Executive Director of Common Cause Rhode Island, disagreed with the concern over fraud. “There hasn’t been any prosecuted fraud of that type in Rhode Island in recent memory. The public interest of allowing people to vote far outweighed the deterrent of actual fraud,” he said.
Gorbea summed up the decision as primarily an issue of expanded access and choices in a time of significant strain. “We need to give people options during this pandemic to make sure we keep voters safe, election officials safe and that everybody who can vote does vote.”
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For Shanghai resident Tiffany Chan ’23, coming back to Brown from China this fall requires an unusual, extra long layover: 14 days of quarantine in Hong Kong. The stop is necessary because of current travel restrictions banning non-U.S. passport holders from entering the U.S. directly from China.
Chan plans to live in her grandmother’s apartment for those two weeks later this month — where she must quarantine alone. “I (have) to kick my grandma out of her house, and she has to live with the rest of my family (in Hong Kong), because Hong Kong is very serious about quarantining alone,” she said. “The process (is) difficult,” said Chan, who hasn’t lived in Hong Kong since the age of three.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions are in place for many international students wishing to return to campus this semester. Most travelers who have been to certain countries in the past 14 days — including Brazil, Iran, China, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Schengen Area, which includes most countries in Europe — are barred from entering the United States because of presidential proclamations instituted during the spring.
This restriction does not apply to U.S. citizens and F-1 or M-1 visa holders traveling from certain countries including Ireland, the United Kingdom or the Schengen Area.
Almost 30 percent of international students planned to study remotely as of Aug. 10. For international students finding a way back to Providence who do not fit those exemptions, the process has been strenuous and anxiety inducing.
“Some students are taking the option of quarantining in a third country that the U.S. doesn’t have a restriction on,” said Christine Sprovieri, director of international travel risk management for the office of global engagement.
For three students interviewed by The Herald, quarantining in a third country in order to return to College Hill is worthwhile.
The main motivation behind Chan’s decision to return to campus is the 12-hour time zone difference between Providence and Shanghai. “I am not the type of person who can flip my circadian rhythm,” she said. And beyond returning to Eastern Daylight Time, Chan said she expects that the College Hill atmosphere will support her studies. “I will be able to focus better and be in an academic environment,” she said.
Fabiana Sarkis ’22, a Herald designer, shared the desire to return to an academic environment. Sarkis is from Brazil and quarantined for 15 days in Mexico before coming to Providence. She said she considers physically returning to Brown crucial for the quality of her education, which remains her priority. “I am at Brown essentially to learn, to be educated and to take classes. I don’t think I would have that experience back home,” she explained. Sarkis reached this conclusion in part based on her experience with remote learning at the end of last semester. Taking classes from home in the spring was “fine, but I didn’t think I learned as much. Even if I am in my dorm, I learn more than if I am in my room at home,” Sarkis said.
Lucas Camillo ’21, also from Brazil, stayed in Sweden and Poland for 19 days before entering the U.S. with his student visa. Camillo’s decision to return to Providence was tied to his upcoming position as a teaching assistant in the biology department. That is “the main reason I am here,” he said.
But the decision to come back was not without its financial drawbacks. “Yes, it was costly,” Sarkis wrote. “I know a lot of people who couldn’t return to the States because of money.”
The financial burden of quarantining in a third country was echoed by Camillo. “Quarantining in Europe and then going to the U.S. cost me and my family probably twice as much as going to the U.S. in terms of plane tickets,” he wrote.
The three international students all expressed concerns about being so far from home during a pandemic. Despite no longer grappling with time zone differences, they now face the possibility of not going home for a year and uncertainty about when they will next see their parents.
“I am afraid that if we aren’t careful and campus closes, then I will have issues getting home,” Sarkis said. “Rushing home last time was very stressful and anxiety-inducing. It isn’t easy for (international students) to get home.”
Chan is primarily concerned about what would happen to her if she were to get sick while in the U.S. She is hoping for more guidance from the University on that front. “At what point would I be sent to a hospital?” she asked, adding that getting sick in a foreign country would worry her parents.
“I hope that American kids understand that it’s going to be a hard semester for us,” Chan said. “It’s a lot to navigate right now.”
Sprovieri acknowledged that the process of returning has been challenging for students, but stressed the resources the University provides to help international students navigate their plans for this upcoming semester. Sprovieri encourages students to use International SOS, a travel security firm that provides medical and security advice to anyone traveling on University business. She also encouraged students to reach out to administrators. “There is definitely no lack of support at Brown. We have a really great group of staff and colleagues that are standing ready to support international students,” Sprovieri said.
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Some international students quarantine in countries away from home before returning to College Hill
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