Friday, September 11, 2020

Covidiot Chronicle: Clarke County, home to the University of Georgia, is a coronavirus hot spot



UGA student COVID numbers spike again, surveillance testing to increase.  (Athens Banner-Herald, 9/9/2020)
COVID-19 surged again at the University of Georgia in the second full week of fall semester classes. 
Some 1,417 members of the UGA community reported testing positive for COVID-19 through the university’s mandatory “DawgCheck” reporting system. Almost all of them — 1,402 — were students; 14 were staff and one a faculty member. 
UGA’s surging numbers have helped make Clarke County one of the nation’s hot spots for COVID-19. As of Tuesday, only one county in the state was adding new COVID-19 cases at a faster rate than Clarke, according to a New York Times COVID tracking website. 
Last week, UGA’s COVID monitoring system counted 821 positive tests — 798 students, 19 staff and four faculty. 
The positivity rate for voluntary testing that UGA is conducting at Legion Field also jumped again to just over 8%.


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Florida State University.  (9/10/2020)

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