COVID-19 Dashboard Available

11/19/2021

January 27, 2022

To the Saint Louis University community,

I write today to let you know that SLU’s COVID-19 dashboard is live with our initial spring semester data.

You can once again accessthe COVID-19 dashboardto review campus COVID-related data, including the number of positive cases, the number of tests administered, and the number of students in isolation and quarantine. Data collection for the spring dashboard began on January 12, 2022, with return-to-campus testing data.

As you look at this week’s dashboard, please be aware:

• In this first dashboard iteration, you will see12 days of data instead of the usual 7 days. The data from these 12 days include all of the spring return-to-campus testing, plus the first week of classes.
• After the initial high number of cases identified through asymptomatic return-to-campus testing, the average number of new student cases per day has been approximately 14. This is higher than the approximately 4 cases per day seen in the two weeks prior to the end of the fall 2021 semester, but not unexpectedly high given that Omicron has been causing very high infection rates in the greater St. Louis region.
• So far, all student cases have been reported to be mild or asymptomatic.

The dashboard data will be updated every Tuesday with information spanning seven days, Monday – Sunday.

As you view the dashboard this spring, you will notice that we are no longer reporting student or employee cases by vaccination status. With our vaccine requirement policy in place, we found that reporting vaccination status was no longer informative. We have also combined non-clinical faculty and staff data into a single category and tab.

You can access previous semesters’ COVID-19 data through a link to the archived dashboards, available on thedashboard page.

If you have any questions, please email us atpandemic@slu.edu.

Stay safe and be well,

Terri Rebmann, Ph.D., RN, CIC, FAPIC
Special Assistant to the President
Director, Institute for Biosecurity
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
College for Public Health and Social Justice