Main Quad, Building 10 (Photo: ADRIAN LIU/The Stanford Daily)
on December 15, 2020
Student government president Vianna Vo ’21 has firsthand experience with the increased stresses on the Santa Clara County medical system, having worked at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose for the past six months.
“I see the rising cases,” Vo said. “I see the number of ventilators that have to to go out. I hear the alarms go off every day.”
What has she concluded? “To think that Stanford wants to bring more students onto campus to possibly increase the risk is really irresponsible,” she said.
Vo is one of many students who are concerned about Stanford’s Dec. 7 announcement of its plan to invite frosh, sophomores and transfer students to campus in winter quarter. Undergraduates said they were surprised by the announcement, and that they are concerned for the safety of local residents, service workers and other students.