@CT1417 Very poor methodology used in the student paper article. All they report is total positives. Clemson has been testing since June. Many of the other schools covid testing is based on testing that started much later. Also there is no mention of the numbers of tests that have been done at Clemson vs the other schools. There is no mention or comparison of the positive test rates.
In fact since 6/5 they have conducted about 78000 tests and have had 4460 positives for an overall positive rate of 5.7%. Last week they had 6563 tests and 184 positive cases. A positive rate of 2.8%.
By comparison on VT covid dashboard they are only recording tests starting in August. They have 23330 test since then and 2884 positives so a positive rate of 12%. Their seven day moving average for the last 10 days is between 18% and 13%
Quite frankly Clemson has done a very good job in managing covid while getting kids back on campus and having some live classes.