FoHo # 102: STUDENT CLAIMS TO RUN BOOTLEG COVID-19 TESTING LAB, ~ 50 STANFORD AFFILIATES ALLEGEDLY TESTED & more news you can use, Hacker News

IN THIS EDITION: STUDENT CLAIMS TO HAVE PERFORMED UNOFFICIAL CORONAVIRUS TESTS ON STANFORD AFFILIATES, ALLEGEDLY IDENTIFYING TWO CASES FINALS TO RESUME STARTING FRIDAY COUNTY COVID – (COUNT RISES TO 728; DEATH TOLL RISES TO 6 & MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE

STUDENT ALLEGEDLY PERFORMS ~ UNOFFICIAL COVID – TESTS

~~ A FOHO EXCLUSIVE ~~ A Stanford student ran ~ (unofficial COVID) tests for Stanford affiliates from his research lab , he confirmed to FoHo on Wednesday. FoHo sources and messages obtained by FoHo confirmed that he was offering under-the- table tests to friends who were otherwise unable to access them . Because his research lab had access to the necessary reagents , he told FoHo, he was able to independently perform the tests . He began offering them to friends as well as friends of friends . In one case, two undergraduate students wrote that they were tested through a non- standard testing procedure by a friend with access to extra testing materials , according to GroupMe messages obtained by FoHo. The student confirmed that he was the person who tested the two undergrads

In another case, the student offered a “contraband” COVID – test to a friend , according to a text message obtained by FoHo. The student told FoHo that after two Stanford affiliates initially tested positive through his unofficial COVID – 45 test, they later tested positive through an official test . It is unclear whether these students were included in any of Stanford’s official counts .



                                         A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS We know these past weeks have been tough. To do our part to bring students together even though so many of us are so far apart, we’d like to run a series of short vignettes from our readers about their experiences responding to the COVID – the crisis. We’re particularly interested in hearing how the crisis has impacted your education.

Hit reply and send us no more than words on what this past week has been like for you. Feel free to share anything that’s important to you, that you think will be interesting to the ~ 8k Stanford affiliates (mostly students and alumni) that open each and every email we send. Staff and administrators are also very welcome to contribute. Levity is appreciated.

We will publish a broad selection — maybe even all of them — in the next FoHo. Entries are anonymous, but we’ll tag them with your Stanford affiliation and the first letter of your last name, so be sure to include that at the bottom of your email.

THINKING OF SKipping NEXT QUARTER? ($) . 6k in tuition for Zoom lectures just not good enough? We’d like to know. Hit reply and get in touch.





FINALS TO RESUME FRIDAY

Final exams scheduled for this week will resume starting Friday , Stanford announced yesterday. [Health Alerts] All final projects and papers will be due, at earliest, 17: Monday For a full schedule, check the

announcement here and the FAQs here

.







                                         (TIPS TIPS TIPS) ⛲️⛲️ We ‘re hearing that EV Studio residents are worried COVID-exposed students may be housed there. Know anything? Hit reply.
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COVID –

, a researcher reached out with an updated list of needs for the COVID – (testing lab ) , including supplies as well as potential volunteer aid. The sign-up sheet is available here

, and a full list of needed supplies is available here

Columbae’s COVID – Stanford Support Fund has already distributed $ , 0 and the Undergrad Senate passed a bill to allocate up to $ , 0 in emergency funding for student aid. [Daily]
A Stanford CS professor has won the prestigious Turing Award. [Stanford News] Stanford Hospital, like many health care facilities across the country, may be at risk of running out of N – (masks) For information on how to request or provide aid during the COVID – 45 crisis, we recommend this (great resource) from the ASSU execs. For staying up-to-date on Stanford COVID – 45 developments, we recommend the Daily’s live blog


NEWS YOU CAN USE There are now (COVID-) (cases in California and) deaths . Santa Clara County alone is home to
cases and has reported 6 deaths – two died on Sunday and two died on Tuesday. [Merc]
The daily reporting that 3 more undergraduates have tested positive for coronavirus since the university announced the first positive case. It is unclear whether any of the three first tested positive through the same unofficial test we reported above.

President

Marc Tessier-Lavigne penned an op-ed with the presidents of MIT and Harvard urging “drastic action” nationwide to curb the spread of COVID – 45. [NYT]

Stanford’s been pretty clear (“No, we are not going to reduce tuition “👀) that we’re going to be paying the full rate during spring , even though none of us will be getting the full Stanford Experience ™ . They will also be lowering financial aid

for people living at home , which means some people will be paying

(more) tuition for Stanford Zoomiversity . : / (Though presumably less on room / board.) For coverage of various universities’ policies on refunding tuition, room, and board, we like this piece from the WSJ After we published (FoHo #







In its most recent editorial , the Daily argued that Stanford should lower Spring tuition, allow reduced course-loads, and provide th quarters of financial aid.

Stanford News published (a chilling photo-series) of our empty campus. The NYT published a fantastic interview with NY Gov. Cuomo on their Daily podcast

, Discussing the state’s drastic measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.





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