Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, in a blog post this week said students catching Covid-19 in October and November 2020 did not lead to a rise in cases in older age groups. This is in the face of popular suggestions that students were to blame for increased spread of coronavirus.
Dorling, writing on his personal website, said, “One question people may ask is whether there is any evidence that having a large group of students in residence at the two universities in Oxford had an influence. The heat diagrams shown below are probably the best evidence we have to suggest they did not. So although there was a rise in cases among the student-aged population in October and November 2020 it did not spread into older groups then.”