Around Amherst: Amherst College gets perfect rating for COVID dashboard
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST Amherst College is one of just two colleges and universities across the country, the other being Wagner College in Staten Island, that has received a perfect A++ score for its COVID-19 online dashboard.
Yale University professors created the ratings for how various campuses are disseminating statistics about the transmission of coronavirus and have reviewed the information about COVID-19 cases at 349 campuses.
The information is at https://www.ratecoviddashboard.com/ratings.
Amherst College’s dashboard, according to the ratings, was easy to read, updated daily, and provides a detailed daily compilation about positive tests among students and staff and those who are in quarantine.