Nottingham should go into a strong Corona lockdown

Nottingham with its 60 000 students needs some form of lockdown! It has just about the worst infection rates in England!https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/coronavirus-death-toll-rises-across-4596858

I wonder why they have so many cases there🤔. Anyways, I hope those students recover quickly and I hope the people around them are safe.

2 of the largest UK universities in a medium sized city, attracting students from all over the UK (& the world).
Lots living in halls or in urban dense environments.
Halls opened up earlier this year (to enable people to slowly populate, rather then having the classic giant crowded moving in day you normally get), but they opened up before rule of 6 came in & had a good few weeks before 10pm curfew. Additionally large open spaces on campus & excellent weather provided great opportunity for day drinking which will have continued in halls & houses.

Nottingham uni also has 2 on site testing facilities easily accessible on foot to students (which I suspect means Nottingham uni is capturing a greater proportion of positive cases then other unis).

I think Nottingham is probably unlikely to be unusual & that this is likely happening in all universities (I would be interested to know how Nottingham's student population:total population ratio compares to other cities, and how student testing compares).

It doesnt matter tho the R value will need to be reduced

DD is saying the same thing - but there are lots of people not following the guidelines - I see it all the time around where I live - and i don't live in a student town.

I don't think it was the tier 2 restrictions. I think it was the mass testing of the students by the uni which picked up so many asymptomatic cases. Those students then isolated, as did their flat mates. Those asymptomatic cases (about 80% of the students who tested positive) then weren't wandering around unknowingly spreading the virus.

It will be interesting , with the mass testing of residents in Liverpool, to see whether the % of asymptomatic cases is as high, or whether this is something specific to younger people.

I said that there was mass testing in Liverpool - my point is - will that show up that 80% of the positive cases are asymptomatic across all age groups, or whether this is found more amongst younger people. If 80% are asymptomatic (and so the person doesn't know they have the virus and therefore get tested) then that's a lot of people walking around potentially spreading the virus without knowing it.

Nottingham uni picked up those cases, they (and their households) isolated, and now the numbers at the uni have gone right down. Which would suggest that mass testing of everyone, followed by the relevant households isolating, would probably go a long way towards bringing the infection rate right down.

But people need support to isolate - with food and money to pay their bills etc.

I said that there was mass testing in Liverpool - my point is - will that show up that 80% of the positive cases are asymptomatic across all age groups, or whether this is found more amongst younger people. If 80% are asymptomatic (and so the person doesn't know they have the virus and therefore get tested) then that's a lot of people walking around potentially spreading the virus without knowing it.

Nottingham uni picked up those cases, they (and their households) isolated, and now the numbers at the uni have gone right down. Which would suggest that mass testing of everyone, followed by the relevant households isolating, would probably go a long way towards bringing the infection rate right down.

But people need support to isolate - with food and money to pay their bills etc.