7% of UW-Madison Students Test Positive for Coronavirus
Thursday, September 17th, 2020 -- 11:03 AM
(WMTV) -Even though not every University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been tested for COVID-19, at least seven percent of the entire student body has already tested positive for the virus, new Dane Co. numbers show.The numbers find 2,160 UW Madison students have tested positive for coronavirus so far, out of 31,185 total students. The Dane Co. Executive’s Office noted that a “vast majority” of those cases were found in undergraduate students who recently moved to Madison. The public health department also notes among the UW students who were infected nearly 9 in 10 of them, or 88.3 percent, report experiencing a varying degree of symptoms of illness.
As far as contact tracing goes, Public Health Madison & Dane Co. along with University Health Services have tried reaching out to nearly 4,000 people to conduct interviews between July 28 and September 14. Since then, they have talked to 3,590 people and haven’t made contact with the other ten percent. Parisi went on to describe timely tracing as necessary to identify and isolate the illness.
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