At the start of the meeting, Ryan explained that the decision to allow students to return to Grounds – given the high number of cases locally and nationally – wasn’t taken lightly. He said it was only made after many conversations with medical and public health experts. “The first [reason] is that we have learned a lot from the first semester and feel like we’re in a much stronger position to respond and to contain the virus – in part because of our testing capacity, in part because we have experience now in getting students into isolation and quarantine spaces quickly,” he said. “In essence, we have a little bit of a playbook this semester, which will help.