- COVID-19 in Champaign-Urbana community
- Energy
- How has the change in campus behavior affected the school’s energy output?
- Abbot Power Plant supplies our entire campus with energy
- There has been a push for years to get Abbott off of coal and on to more sustainable energy sources
- How has behavior since quarantine began affected the energy usage of our campus?
- Has our usage gone up or down?
- How have our needs changed?
- A lack of students effects all businesses, but how has it specifically affected the community’s energy output as a whole?
- Does an online University lead to a leaner carbon foot print in the area?
- What has Mass Transit looked like over quarantine?
- If people aren’t traveling as much (or there are just less people in the area) should buses be running on a different schedule?
- Talk to bus drivers: are they driving empty buses?
- How has the change in campus behavior affected the school’s energy output?
- Greek Life
- Where do these organizations stand in the middle of their usual rush process?
- Is it worth joining these organizations in the midst of a pandemic?
- How limited are the activities that normally draw in rushes/pledges?
- Many houses are fully canceling their rush process in fear of the virus/crackdown from the University
- Number of rushes and accepted bids in fraternities on campus are way down compared to previous years
- Talking to members of houses has been/will be difficult. It might be easier to try and speak with freshmen who were interested in rushing/did or have been rushing.
- Dues for many houses, especially sororities, is expensive. Are members of these organizations still paying the same in dues even though many activities and events have been restricted?
- Could be easier to talk to greek organizations if it is framed in a neutral sense, allowing them to tell their side of the story amidst accusations and pandemics, while also highlighting other students’ views of the organizations
- Student Life
- Interesting chance for profiles
- Urbana used to have a lively music scene with many house/basement rock shows
- Has COVID effectively killed the music scene for this side of campus?
- Contact bands/band members that were previously active
- Do they plan to continue playing shows or figure out how to play their music for others safely?
- Has the culture changed at all?
- Profile of a singular band might be interesting
- What are students doing to pass the time?
- Profile of a student who has been quarantined with COVID
- What is it like to live with a roommate who has contracted the virus?
- Energy
Category: Planning
COVID-19 on campus
Testing
- New jobs created
- Are they student jobs?
- Day in the Life?
- Paid/incentives?
- Where is the money coming from?
- Are they student jobs?
- Process
- What happens after students give saliva?
- How accurate?
- Where does it go?
- Lab worker duties?
- stressful/pressuring?
- Lab worker duties?
- What happens after students give saliva?
- Positive Result
- Contact tracing process
- Who gets contacted and how is that decided
- Quarantine
- Who monitors it?
- Consequences of breaking quarantine?
- Where?
- Contact tracing process
Student Life
- Activities
- Virtual
- How are students staying social?
- Difference in freshman experience?
- # of freshman staying home vs. soph./jr./senior
- Non-virtual
- In-person limits?
- Consequences of breaking rules
- Interim suspension??
- Virtual
- Athletics/Arts
- What are they doing with free time?
- Future impacts?
- Considering transferring?
- Can they stay home?
- Living
- Dorm vs. Apartment
- Positive test procedure in building
- Visitor policy
- Anonymous board?
- Dining hall food vs. eating out/groceries?
- Dorm vs. Apartment
Local Businesses
- New Covid procedures
- helping/hurting business?
- Cost of making adjustments?
- Hazard Pay for worker?
- How are business owners adapting?
- Layoffs/Fires
- Students or non-students?
- How many?
- Unemployment?
- How are they finding other jobs? COVID testing helpers?
- How are business owners handling smaller staffs
- Staying healthy
- Does staff have to get tested?
- How many times
- How are they getting access to testing if not a student?
- New cleaning protocols?
- Does staff have to get tested?
Cassidy Brandt COVID-19 Flowchart
COVID-19
- COVID-19 Spreads to Champaign Area
- Person Dies from COVID=19
- Underlying Health conditions the person may have faced
- Diabetes? Heart condition? Asthma?
- Who was this person and his/her involvement in the community?
- Well known community leader or student from the area?
- How has their family handled the loss, were they able to see them before death? or even after?
- Is there a funeral plan?
- Could this person have been saved with more proactive policy and decision making?
- Linked with “Are our local health policies ready to handle pandemic?”
- Underlying Health conditions the person may have faced
- Are our local health policies ready to handle pandemic?
- How quickly were stay-at-home orders issued?
- Did the city wait around at first, or were they at the forefront? If not, why not?
- What factors lead to making a decision quickly?
- Is there someone in charge of handling the policy ideas?
- How quickly were stay-at-home orders issued?
- How would this affect local businesses?
- Estimate of loss of revenue
- How long will they be allowed to stay open?
- What’s the number of cases in the county or city until restaurants are fully shut down?
- Why go against CDC guidelines on outdoor dining?
- How strictly will social-distancing and other rules be enforced right off the bat?
- What specific metrics were used to make this decision?
- How severe will the punishments be?
- Will the punishments be different for minors and adults?
- Do powerful local businesses have influence over policy decisions?
- Will donors or those who are connected be able to sway policy in favor of business?
- Will public officials be able to hold their ground and put public safety first?
- Or maybe special treatment for those powerful business owners?
- How would this affect local businesses?
- Hospitals prepare for COVID-19 patients
- How many hospitals in this area are prepared for COVID-19 patients?
- Can they handle the large volume of students and faculty that live nearby?
- How many people would have to be in the hospitals for all hospitals to be over capacity?
- What’s the protocol if the hospital is over capacity? Who gets a bed and who doesn’t?
- Who is the most well-funded hospital? Is that the most well-suited hospital?
- Where do their funds come from?
- Can they share funds and resources with less funded hospitals?
- How many COVID-19 patients can they handle?
- How many respirators are on hand?
- Have they asked for federal assistance of any kind?
- If so, what was the request?
- How did the federal government respond?
- Will they need to ask for further assistance?
- Are there ample staff to handle the rush of patients and if staff gets sick?
- How many staff members do they have on hand?
- When will they go to retired medical professionals for help?
- If the staff gets sick, do they get treated at that hospital or somewhere else?
- How does the staff feel about being on the frontlines?
- How many hospitals in this area are prepared for COVID-19 patients?
- Person Dies from COVID=19