Post #1467: W&M COVID-19 update to 3/21/2022

Posted on March 23, 2022

 

William and Mary didn’t post new numbers over spring break.  You also might want to take the most recent numbers with a grain of salt, again due to the  impact of spring break (and the potential for cases to have occurred over spring break, but not be reported to W*M).

Those caveats aside, taken at face value, the new-case rate on the William and Mary campus now appears to be on a par with the rate for 18-24 year olds, generally, in Virginia.  Really, the new case rate is so low (under one per day, as I calculate it, for this last reporting period) that, effectively, you’re looking at two numbers that are effectively zero, plus some random statistical noise.

Source:  Calculated from William and Mary COVID-19 dashboard.  I gap-filled the 3/14/2022 number by taking the average of the week before and the week after.  The 3/21/2022 rate assumes that if cases occurred over spring break, that would have been reported to W&M.  No idea whether that’s reasonable or not.