But UNC didn’t specify the number of positive tests in each alert out of privacy concerns, leaving students like Ms. The issue of how to report outbreaks exploded at UNC last week, with the four clusters contributing to 130 student Covid-19 cases in its then-weekly update of test results. “Covid-19 didn’t create problems of transparency for universities,” said Donald Taylor Jr., a health policy professor at Duke University, which is also in North Carolina. Chris Suggs, senior class president at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, wants school administrators to provide more data about Covid-19, including demographic breakdowns of test results. After campus pushback in nearby Chapel Hill last week, UNC officials decided that reporting daily test data and case counts within clusters at residence halls is crucial, a spokesperson said.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 25, 2020 09:36 UTC