0 (from April 23-26, 2021) These dashboards provide a snapshot of COVID-19 cases at these institutions, but don’t show the whole picture.
Full data on many community and technical colleges isn’t available, for example. The Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) — comprising 16 colleges such as ECTC and HCC — started posting COVID-19 case counts twice a week in September 2020 but does not keep cumulative totals. Mary Hemlepp, director of communication strategy at KCTCS, says the organization does not track total case numbers because they “have not had many cases reported.”
Case counts in the counties in which these colleges reside have been higher than those on campus. Warren County has had 15,694 total reported cases as of April 26, according to data from USA Facts, whereas WKU has only had 1,292. Calloway County has had 3,469 cases, according to their health department, to MSU’s 563.