Few of the roughly 5,700 undergraduates who moved into UC San Diego dorms over the past 10 days tested positive for COVID-19. But about 1,800 students with reservations have yet to show up, underscoring lingering health safety concerns. UCSD said that 10 students tested positive, and that a few more are likely to do so during a second round of testing over the next two weeks. The numbers are slightly lower than campus predictions...
Last spring, UCSD became one of the first major American research universities to test large numbers of students for COVID-19. The testing became the basis for Return to Learn, an effort to house many of students on campus and to offer a limited number of in-person courses to the entire student body. The rest of the classes are being offered online...
UCSD also is phasing in a system where it tests waste water for the presence of the novel coronavirus. The school has already proven that it can identify and track down infected people using this technique...
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