Dear Campus Community,
Most of the at-home tests have resulted!
We have 10 total positive students, including one international student who tested separately.
That gives us a starting positivity rate of roughly 1%, which bodes very well for low numbers this semester. I am so impressed with our student body: you have a lower positivity rate than Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and the United States!
These results give me conviction in our testing plan: starting with 10 positive students in isolation and 10–90 close contacts in quarantine would have put us in a defensive position from day one.
I would also like to commend Inspire Diagnostics for their fast, fantastic work.
Inspire Diagnostics at-home summary:
- Total ordered: 1,157 — Wow! Great job, students!
- Total resulted: 1,075 — Inspire tells us that some are arriving today
- Pending: 82 — Results coming today; do not come to campus until you have a result
- Indeterminate: 8 — Do not come to campus until you have a result
- Negative: 1,058 — A truly humbling number
- Positive: 9 — Do not come to campus until ACHA approves the end of your isolation
Thank you to all who sent encouraging emails and kind words during the last two days! Apologies to all those who canceled flights, lost vacation days, and had other inconveniences. And my heart is with those in Texas who are truly suffering this week.
WELCOME BACK, ALLEGHENY STUDENTS!
Gator Strong.
Dr. Morrow