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Boston University Weekly COVID-19 Report: March 31 to April 6
Boston University publishes its COVID-19 testing data on a public-facing dashboard. Gloria Waters, BU vice president and associate provost for research, and Judy Platt, director of BU Student Health Services, provide a weekly update on the overall health of the BU community.
Between March 31 and April 6, 61 students and 11 faculty and staff tested positive for coronavirus at Boston University. Among students, the number of infections has nearly doubled since last week. The Brink asked Judy Platt and Gloria Waters to answer a few key questions on COVID-19 at BU.
Gloria Waters has spearheaded teams of BU scientists in their development and deployment of a campus-wide COVID-19 testing program and mathematical modeling of community behavior. Judy Platt, chair of BU’s Medical Advisory Group, oversees clinical management and isolation of students and employees who test positive for coronavirus, and helps manage B
Boston University publishes its COVID-19 testing data on a public-facing dashboard. Gloria Waters, BU vice president and associate provost for research,.
Boston University publishes its COVID-19 testing data on a public-facing dashboard. Gloria Waters, BU vice president and associate provost for research,.
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, director of BU Student Health Services, provide a weekly update on the overall health of the BU community.
In the last week, 94 students and 10 faculty and staff have tested positive for coronavirus. “We are really seeing a decrease in employee positives student positives are making up the largest percentage of new cases at BU,” says Judy Platt. Notably, however, a few people who recently tested positive had also recently received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
So far, most people vaccinated at BU have been healthcare providers and COVID-facing support staff. A small number of those individuals have gone on to test positive for coronavirus, despite having recently received their first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. “That doesn’t indicate a vaccine failure no one expected it to prevent illness one week after the first dose,” Platt says. “The highest efficacy for immunity is not reached until two weeks have passed after the second dose.”