| TOP STORY Aggressive Testing at University Cuts COVID Rate to Near Zero
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is testing every student, faculty and staff member for COVID-19 twice per week, and the positivity rate is just 0.45 percent as the nation grapples with a surging virus. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently completed its in-person fall semester. And as the nation watches the COVID-19 virus surge, the school continues the virus testing program that has worked so well since it began in August. The COVID-19 positivity rate for the entire student body and faculty for the past seven days was 0.45 percent. The number of total tests given since the inception of the program? A staggering 908,158. But it’s that rate of testing and contact tracing that reduced the positivity rate from a high of nearly 3 percent in late August to what it is now. READ MORE | 