Colleges Outbreak Update

Professors can be in on these things early, but ultimately, legacy media firms have teams of people to keep track of these things. 

In this case, the New York Times now has a database of colleges and cases, so I won't have to do daily reports anymore. Here's their map:

They now show 26,000 cases at colleges and universities (SUU is on there for our single case back in April). 

They not looking at all of them yet (e.g., SLCC, CEU and LDS Business College are not in there yet). Here's who they say they're covering "The list includes public, four-year universities in the United States, as well as private colleges that compete in N.C.A.A. sports or are members of an elite group of research universities." That's about 2,100 schools.

What's amazing to me is that 600 of them refused to respond or have not made their numbers publicly available.

And, they have a number I haven't seen anywhere else before. They attribute 64 deaths nationwide to those 26K cases. That number is lower than probabilities based on the broader population would indicate, suggesting the obvious conclusion that most of these cases are in younger and healthier people.

BTW: there is no comparable database for clusters, but UNC is up to 10 now.

UPDATES

The map above is a snapshot from a point in time. But if you click through the link, they are updating the map there. For whatever reason, the U is not on the map, but it is in the database. Even so, it looks to me like the database itself is not updated rapidly. As with everything else in the U.S. involving this disease, centralized standards for reporting local level data don't exist.

It also doesn't help that some universities have not been forthcoming with data, Just today, the Arizona State system with over 100K students had to be pressured into releasing its first number: 161, and about a third of the student body tested. Honestly, that's not that bad (relatively speaking) so the next logical question ought to be why are they so uptight?