Screenshot of the FIU COVID-19 cases dashboard for the third week reported
Written by: Jordan Coll/ News Director and Valentina Palm/ Editor-in-chief
Seven students and four faculty members self-reported to the university having COVID-19, the second week of class.
Of the seven students, four live on campus and two professors teach face-to-face.
Cases are updated weekly in the FIU Community COVID-19 Self-reported Cases dashboard but it only shows the number of cases reported weekly, not a total count of students or faculty infected.
The number of cases reported reduced by half last week from cases reported the previous week were 26 students and seven professors self-reported having the virus.
Numbers reflected on the dashboard only account for students and faculty who self-report having the virus to the Student Affairs and Human Resources divisions.
For privacy laws, the university can’t verify the cases, according to the dashboard’s website.
The FIU COVID-19 Response team follows up with students and faculty who self-reported contracting the virus, wrote Maydel Sanatana, Associate Vice President of FIU Media Relations, and Communication in an email to PantherNOW.
“This process goes across weeks, of course, until the person is well and ready to rejoin,” wrote Santana.
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