Weekly COVID Compliance Report: October 9

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Weekly Compliance Report: October 9

Biggest problem remains daily symptom checks and testing requirements

October 9, 2020
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At just over a month into the fall semester, the two biggest problems for students when it comes to following Boston University’s COVID-19 protocols remain submitting—on a daily basis—their health symptoms and staying current with their coronavirus testing. 

From October 2 to 8, there were 6,979 instances of students failing to comply with their daily attestation requirement (which includes individual students who had not submitted their attestation on multiple occasions), plus another 129 instances of students not complying with their testing requirement.

The punishment for repeated noncompliance by students is having their Terrier ID/Wi-Fi deactivated: last week 166 students suffered that consequence, according to the Dean of Students office. One student was removed from housing due to noncompliance. And six students were hit with deferred suspensions, the result of a West Campus outdoor gathering that was reported at the grotto, next to Nickerson Field.

Current #Last Week #Description
6,979Warnings issued for not submitting daily attestations
129Warnings issued for missing or failing to schedule COVID-19 tests
Number of individual students not in compliance
13Reports of noncompliance with face coverings
1Reports of physical distancing concerns
2Reports of non-compliant on-campus gatherings
16Reports of non-compliant off-campus gatherings
173Students sanctioned for non-compliance
Students suspended
0Isolation/quarantine housing violations
2Guest violations
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  2. For Gloria Waters and the covid research team: in your next weekly report, could you please answer this? I’ve asked, as have others, in the past, but to date have not received an answer.

    As of 10/14/20: Can you explain why the dashboard shows only 7 students in isolation? 4 tested positive just yesterday, plus any asymptomatic positives from the past 10 days, plus symptomatic students (which President Brown says is 50% of student positives), who undoubtedly need to be in isolation even longer than 10 days, since the 10 day mark starts at the day of symptom cessation. How is it there are 101 “recovered” and only 7 students isolated? (These numbers are specific to today, but these numbers have never seemed to line up accurately.) Does “isolated” mean something distinct from “in quarantine because of a positive test”? And what about students in isolation because of contact tracing?

    Could you also add this explanation to the dashboard page so that people know how to make sense of these numbers?

    Thanks!

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    1. Hi Cati, this question was addressed in our September 16 story:

      One dashboard reader also asked why the number of recovered cases appeared to be so high so early in the semester, compared to active infections. That’s because the total number of cases has been tallying up since late July when BU first began pilot testing. And undergraduates first began arriving on campus and entering the testing program as early as August 15.

      “We’ve had positive cases nearly every day since we started robust testing of the community over a month ago,” Platt says. “Isolation is 10 days, not two weeks.”

      Platt adds that there have been some students who had, through their daily attestations, reported symptoms before they had a test come back positive, so those students entered isolation from the first day of symptoms and not the day of the test result. “That could result in this number looking larger on the recovered side, even if the positive test results came after their illness had started,” she says.

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