Current Indiana University mitigation testing shows a 7 percent positivity rate at Bloomington’s campus.
Dr. Aaron Carroll is the Director of Surveillance and Mitigation at IU. He said the rate is higher than IU leadership would like to see.
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Carroll added that there’s no set metric for when classes would move completely online. He said, so far, nothing shows the virus spreading through classrooms.
“There are many factors that would go into a decision to go online only," Carroll said. "I’m not sure much of what we’re seeing would change if we were to switch to online only now and certainly, we will be watching all of those different factors.”
According to Carroll, most new cases can be traced to social or off-campus activites.
He said that the university is working on increasing mitigation testing so that students and faculty can be tested regularly, which will lower the chances of asymptomatic spread. But this will not be for another few weeks at least.
All of IU’s testing is reported to the state health department, Carroll says.
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