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 16:05 on 25 January 2021

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The Numbers

Campus

17 new cases (9468 tests) on Jan 24

27/day Average daily cases for the past 7 days (through Jan 24)

441 Total cases in 2021 (up to and including Jan 24)

233 Total cases since students started (officially) returning on January 15 (through Jan 24)

0 Total cases after the start of classes on January 25 (through Jan 24)

5083 Total cases since testing began on July 6, 2020 (through Jan 24). (4642 cases in 2020 plus 441 so far in 2021).

~16% of undergraduates on campus have tested positive since July 6, 2020 (3851/24000).

  • ~0.8% Since students returned on January 15, 2021 (estimated as 83% of the 233 cases so far, the same proportion as in the fall)

  • ~1.8% between November 21, 2020 and January 14, 2021 (estimated as 50% of the total of 865 cases between semesters, based on unconfirmed estimates that 50% of these cases were from employees).

  • 13.4% between August 16 and November 20, the in-person part of Fall 2020 Semester (3226 undergrad cases as reported by the University).

Champaign County

18 Champaign County residents have died of Covid so far in January 2021 (based on CUPHD posting dates through Jan 25)

69 Covid patients hospitalized at Carle in Urbana, with 10 in the ICU (Carle posted Jan 25)

  • 24 Champaign County residents currently hospitalized. (CUPHD posted on Jan 25). The number of Champaign County residents in the ICU is not reported anywhere.

4.83% 7-day-average positivity in Champaign County (5.4% in Illinois Region 6) after excluding testing from campus (IDPH reported for Jan 22)

  • 5% single-day positivity in Champaign County and 5.6% in Region 6 (IDPH reported for Jan 22)

Graphs

Interpretation: Cases on each day, with labels for each Monday (and other critical dates labeled). Given that the number of tests varies from day to day, focus on the overall trends rather than the absolute numbers (see the Average Cases graph below for a smoothed version).

Interpretation: The dark blue line and numeric values present a rolling 7-day average of the number of new positive cases. For example, the value for January 8 is based on an average of the number of daily cases between January 2 and January 8. The faint blue bars duplicate the bars from the Daily cases graph. The 7-day average smooths out the daily variability by averaging a full week’s values.