2021 Covid Summary
University of Illinois and Champaign County

The graphs and analyses on this page use data from the University of Illinois Covid Dashboard, the IDPH Region 6 Dashboard, and the CUPHD Dashboard. The page was created by Dan Simons using RMarkdown and was last updated at 08:03 on 17 May 2021

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The Numbers

Campus

2 New cases (1932 tests) on May 16 (0 undergrad, 1 grad, 0 faculty/staff, 1 other)

2/day Average daily cases for the past 7 days (through May 16)

1669 Total cases since January 25, 2021 when classes started (1208 undergraduates, 113 grad students, 210 faculty/staff)

1902 Total cases since January 15, 2021 when undergraduates returned (1370 undergraduates, 142 grad students, 242 faculty/staff)

2112 Total cases in 2021 (up to and including May 16)

6754 Total cases since testing began on July 6, 2020 (through May 16). (4642 cases in 2020 plus 2112 so far in 2021).

~20.6% of undergraduates on campus have tested positive since July 6, 2020 (4935/24000). The fall semester saw ~13.4% infected (Aug 16 - Nov 20). The Spring semester has seen an additional ~5.7% so far (Jan 15 - May 16).

Champaign County

3 Champaign County residents have died of Covid so far in May 2021 (based on CUPHD posting dates through May 16)

33 Covid patients hospitalized at Carle in Urbana, with 7 in the ICU (Carle posted May 10)

9 Champaign County residents currently hospitalized. (CUPHD posted on May 16). The number of Champaign County residents in the ICU is not reported anywhere.

2.63% 7-day-average positivity in Champaign County (2.9% in Illinois Region 6) after excluding testing from campus (IDPH reported for May 13)

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