Colleges begin releasing coronavirus test results ahead of fall – Education Dive
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Dive Brief:
- Colleges and universities are beginning to release the results of coronavirus tests done on students and employees upon their return to campus.
- Some institutions — including the University of Kentucky, the University of Washington and West Virginia University — also have public dashboards showing how many coronavirus cases the tests are turning up.
- These efforts can encourage colleges to be more transparent, but officials should also explain what the data means and how they’re using it to make decisions, experts say.
Dive Insight:
Testing students and employees for the coronavirus before they return to campus is a key plank of many colleges’ reopening plans. Iowa State University, for instance, is requiring all of its roughly 9,000 residential students this fall to get tested before they move into their housing, according to a local media report.
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