Re:The nightmare that colleges face this fall
by mlyle on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:52AM
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I sez: "About 15 per 100,000 college students die each year from alcohol --- poisoning, motor vehicle accidents, other alcohol-related "
But then you act as if I said they were all alcohol poisoning, when I was pretty explicit about the number.
Fatal alcohol poisoning (actually this is a number for unintentional poisoning in which alcohol is involved, so it's a tad broader than pure alcohol poisoning) in college is about 4 per 100,000 annually, for clarity. It is possible that the COVID-19 death rate could be lower than this in the college student cohort for 2020-2021.
> and if the incidence were anything like 15 out of 100000 college students per year, the news would be full of such stories.
K.
Your point re: colleges with few students with cars is a good one, but survey data indicates that more college students aged 18-21 and 21-24 drive under the influence than the general population 18-21 and 21-24.
But then you act as if I said they were all alcohol poisoning, when I was pretty explicit about the number.
Fatal alcohol poisoning (actually this is a number for unintentional poisoning in which alcohol is involved, so it's a tad broader than pure alcohol poisoning) in college is about 4 per 100,000 annually, for clarity. It is possible that the COVID-19 death rate could be lower than this in the college student cohort for 2020-2021.
> and if the incidence were anything like 15 out of 100000 college students per year, the news would be full of such stories.
K.
Your point re: colleges with few students with cars is a good one, but survey data indicates that more college students aged 18-21 and 21-24 drive under the influence than the general population 18-21 and 21-24.