US Cases: 5,457,824*
US Deaths: 163,595*
Worldwide Cases: 22,046,135*
Worldwide Deaths: 778,557*
* - Numbers are a lower bound. True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration
As the father of a college sophomore attending school on a campus where in-person instruction starts tomorrow, this is horrifying (if not unexpected):
Iowa State University said Tuesday that 175 students living in residence halls and campus apartments have tested positive for Covid-19.
The school conducted move-in testing over two weeks and found 175 students, or 2.2% of those tested, were positive for the virus. The rest tested negative, the school said in a statement.
The director of the student health center, Erin Baldwin, said the goal of move-in testing was to identify positive cases and intervene to mitigate the spread of the infection.
"Students who tested positive are required to isolate for 10 days. About half of the students are isolating in isolation rooms provided by the department of residence," the statement said. "Quarantine rooms are also available for students notified through contact tracing that they were exposed to a positive case."
This article from CNN lists similar issues at 9 different universities, and it doesn't even mention the disaster at UNC.
We're about to see just how much havoc Republican governance can wreak on America.
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