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, director of BU Student Health Services, provide a weekly update on the overall health of the BU community.
In the last week, 94 students and 10 faculty and staff have tested positive for coronavirus. “We are really seeing a decrease in employee positives student positives are making up the largest percentage of new cases at BU,” says Judy Platt. Notably, however, a few people who recently tested positive had also recently received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
So far, most people vaccinated at BU have been healthcare providers and COVID-facing support staff. A small number of those individuals have gone on to test positive for coronavirus, despite having recently received their first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. “That doesn’t indicate a vaccine failure no one expected it to prevent illness one week after the first dose,” Platt says. “The highest efficacy for immunity is not reached until two weeks have passed after the second dose.”
, director of BU Student Health Services, provide a weekly update on the overall health of the BU community.
With the first week of spring semester classes underway this past Monday, Boston University’s coronavirus surveillance program is already detecting a significantly higher number of COVID-19 cases than last week within its residential and off-campus student community. “We have a lot of cases right now and they seem to be coming from everywhere,” Judy Platt says. Between January 20 and 26, 105 students and 17 faculty and staff have tested positive for coronavirus.
“The numbers we are seeing are concerning,” Gloria Waters says. “It is understandable that students are glad to be back on campus and want to mingle with their friends, however, it is really important that they resist the temptation to do that since it could jeopardize our ability to keep the campus safe.”
Boston University’s coronavirus surveillance program is ramping its daily testing bandwidth back up to accommodate the return of students, faculty, and staff.