The Times has counted more than 390,000 cases at colleges since late July of those, more than 75,000 cases have been added since early November. This data shows where the virus has been identified over the course of the pandemic, not necessarily where it is prevalent now. “We will do our best to avoid the back-and-forth shifts that created uncertainty for our campus community in the fall.”
DiStefano, the chancellor, wrote in a letter to campus. “In consultation with state and local health officials, we need to delay our in-person opportunities until cases decrease and we can provide a safer and more positive on-campus experience,” Philip P. And on the University of Colorado’s flagship campus, officials said spring classes would begin fully online and that the spring commencement ceremony would be held virtually. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which quickly aborted an attempt to hold most fall classes in person after an early outbreak, said undergraduates would need to be tested before returning to campus. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where nearly 2,000 people have tested positive, said students and employees would need to be tested every two weeks in the spring. And across the country, universities began announcing plans for a spring term in which the virus promised to continue dominating campus life. Boston College announced that its football team would not participate in a bowl game, in part because of the strain of months of coronavirus restrictions. In several instances, colleges noted that some cases were tied to branch campuses or satellite locations.Ĭollin College in Texas, where a faculty member recently died from the virus, moved all winter term classes online, citing a surge in regional coronavirus cases. The location of a university’s main campus is listed unless otherwise specified. Note: The charts show the cases per 100,000 residents reported each week in the county where each school is located. Schools reporting zero cases or without case totals appear only when searched. Schools without case totals (indicated as -) either did not respond to inquiries or declined to provide information. ‡College did not clarify whether data includes duplicate cases. †College reports only positive tests and may count duplicate cases. *Total is known to include one or more cases from a medical school, medical center, teaching hospital, clinical setting or other academic program in health sciences. But at least four students have died in recent weeks after contracting the virus. Most of the deaths were reported in the spring and involved college employees, not students. Most cases on college campuses have been announced since students returned to campus for the fall term. Read more about outbreaks in athletic departments, and see a campus-level breakdown of those cases. Those numbers, which are an undercount because dozens of universities provided little or no data, emerged as schools forged ahead with football season amid the pandemic. More than 6,600 cases were identified in the athletic departments of the 130 universities that compete at the highest level of Division I football.
sports - has revealed more than 397,000 cases and at least 90 deaths since the pandemic began. A New York Times survey of more than 1,900 American colleges and universities - including every four-year public institution and every private college that competes in N.C.A.A. Tens of thousands of new coronavirus cases continue to emerge on college campuses. This page is no longer being updated, but The New York Times has continued to track coronavirus cases on campuses.
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