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 13:03 on 28 February 2021

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The Numbers

Campus

7 New cases (4559 tests) on Feb 27 (6 undergrad, 0 grad, 1 faculty/staff, 0 other)

16/day Average daily cases for the past 7 days (through Feb 27)

1065 Total cases since January 25, 2021 when classes started (846 undergraduates, 60 grad students, 112 faculty/staff)

1298 Total cases since January 15, 2021 when undergraduates returned (1008 undergraduates, 89 grad students, 144 faculty/staff)

1506 Total cases in 2021 (up to and including Feb 27)

6148 Total cases since testing began on July 6, 2020 (through Feb 27). (4642 cases in 2020 plus 1506 so far in 2021).

~19.1% of undergraduates on campus have tested positive since July 6, 2020 (4573/24000). The fall semester saw ~13.4% infected (Aug 16 - Nov 20). The Spring semester has seen an additional ~4.2% so far (Jan 15 - Feb 27).

Champaign County

21 Champaign County residents have died of Covid so far in January 2021 (based on CUPHD posting dates through Feb 28)

28 Covid patients hospitalized at Carle in Urbana, with 5 in the ICU (Carle posted Feb 28)

12 Champaign County residents currently hospitalized. (CUPHD posted on Feb 28). The number of Champaign County residents in the ICU is not reported anywhere.

2.86% 7-day-average positivity in Champaign County (2.6% in Illinois Region 6) after excluding testing from campus (IDPH reported for Feb 25)

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