Five days after the results of the preliminary COVID-19 exam were announced, the University of Alabama announced Round 2 on Friday evening and the numbers are rising.
There were 1,481 positive tests among students on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday when the UA announced by CT at 5pm on Friday. The updated number shows that 562 students have tested positive since 192 -Gust. 24. This means that 1,043 students have tested positive after resuming classes.
The updated dashboard shows that 19 faculty / staff members have had positive tests since 19 August.
In terms of solitude, 36.09% of beds are occupied after sitting 19.78 per cent on Monday.
The numbers were even better at the other two UN campuses. There have been only 10 positive tests between UAB and UA-Huntville students since August 19th.
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After a second week of rushing on Friday evening news about how to handle the growing number of cases on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Tuscaloosa City closed the strips for two weeks, then tied up with images of the filled installations spreading rapidly. Already a third dorm was cleaned by residents to create a more quarantine space in the Burke West Residence Hall on top of the 450 beds on campus.
Alabama President Stuart Bell wrote a letter to students on Sunday saying the increase in positive cases is “unacceptable” because they are working personally for the fall semester. Mayor Walt Maddox’s Bar Closer Executive Order came the next day.
The school has offered testing at the Coleman Coliseum for therapeutic students or someone suffering from coronavirus. Bell said they will have the capacity to test up to 1,000 students a day in an arena with Alabama’s basketball and gym and gymnastics programs.
The DCH hospital in Tuscaloosa said it treated patients in Covid-155 on Friday. It was the lowest total at 10 in August Gust. Hospital. The age or affiliation of the persons treated in the hospital is not taken into account.
Several other large schools released numbers Friday that refer to Alabama’s case load. The University of Iowa gave 607 positive tests since classes began Aug. 18, a day before UI.
There are 355 active cases among students in South Carolina, with 12.7 percent of those tested on Wednesday and Thursday returning positive.
UAB Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Michael Sag said Thursday that the rapid growth after a few tests came back positive on campus speaks volumes about the difficulty of COVID-19.
“It reminds us how contagious the virus really is and we’re never really 100 percent safe,” Sag said. “And we have to be vigilant every day in terms of exposing this virus, because if we give it a chance to infect, it will take every advantage of it.”
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Michael Casagrande is a journalist with Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter YByCasagrande Or on Facebook.
