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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hold up.

This article is absolute garbage. The numbers are intentionally misleading. For example, Uconn is listed as 112 cases.

The cases in question are actually 90 cases among healthcare workers in Farmington, CT at the Uconn Hospital. The other 22 are Uconn employees that have been exclusively teleworking and have not set foot on campus or in any Uconn facility since March.

Not a single class is a student or employee that has had physical contact with the campus. 
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+1 This is bad data meant to scare people and sell papers. You need to dig into the numbers some more.[/quote]
+1.  At this level, it's downright fraudulent.  The story should be retracted.[/quote]
Yep, the PP is correct:

https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Most-University-of-Connecticut-COVID-cases-tied-15442925.php

[quote]The University of Connecticut was listed as having a cumulative 112 cases, which placed 10th in the country, just under the University of California at Berkeley which reported 123.

How can that be?

UConn officials say 90 of those cases are associated with personnel at the UConn Health campus in Farmington. The remaining 22 were UConn employees who work at Storrs or regional campuses but who were all telecommuting at the time of their diagnosis.

Several times, UConn President Tom Katsouleas has made a point of saying that during the height of the pandemic this spring, students forced to stay on campus for one reason or the other managed to do so without getting sick.[/quote]
Really quite disgusted with this NYT article.
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