Where is the love? As students, Kira Holmes ’17 and Colleen Truskey ’17 heard a rumor that 25% of William & Mary students end up marrying someone else from the university. Later, as post-baccalaureate fellows at William & Mary’s Center for Geospatial Analysis (CGA), they wondered: Where are all these people meeting each other and falling in love? The result was the “Where W&M Couples Meet” map, where students and alumni can plot where, when and how they met their significant other. Courtesy image
Photo - of - by Claire De Lisle, University Advancement | February 13, 2021
The following story originally appeared in as an online exclusive for the W&M Alumni Magazine. - Ed.
Only 11 percent of ICU beds in northeast Indiana and around the state are filled with those who are battling COVID-19. That number has continued to go down
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Whitley County’s 7-day positivity rate again went up on Monday, according to Tuesday’s update of the Indiana COVID-19 dashboard.
With a positivity rate of 17.9 percent, the county remains one of Indiana’s most infectious for COVID-19, measured by cases per 100,000 residents and positivity rate.
Attempts to speak with Whitley County health officials about the current rates have been unsuccessful.
A dozen new deaths were reported in Allen County on Tuesday due to delays in reporting, according to the Allen County Department of Health.
That brings Allen County’s total of those lost to COVID-19 to 577.
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Indiana schools have consistently experienced a spike in COVID-19 cases following the holidays, and this January has been no exception.
On Jan. 11, 11 days after New Year’s Eve, there were 426 new positive COVID-19 student cases in Indiana, according to the Indiana COVID-19 Dashboard and Map.
Similar spikes occurred on Dec. 7, 11 days after Thanksgiving when there were 611 new positive student cases and on Nov. 9, 9 days after Halloween when there were 715 new positive student cases.
These statistics come from the 2,072 Indiana schools that have chosen to report their COVID-19 data to the state. 296 schools have yet to report this information.