In Omicron/Coronavirus planning, 18 seems to be a magic number. UCLA plans to be online until January 18 (the day after the Martin Luther King holiday and thus the start of week 3 of the winter quarter. Most of the other UCs with quarter systems starting on January 3 are doing the same. (Davis is the exception, so far going remote only the first week.)
UC-Berkeley and UC-Merced start their semesters on January 18, so they are waiting until then to decide. USC starts its new session a week after UCLA so it has decided to go online for just the first week, i.e., until January 18.*
It seems that the planning revolves around the idea that things will be clearer by January 18. Here is what we know now for LA County:
If what happened last December-January is any clue, we are likely to be looking at an uptick in cases when decisions have to be made about what to do in the week(s) starting January 18.
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*https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/usc-goes-remote-only-for-first-week-of--classes/ar-AAS7WzU.
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