CS3650 (Information on COVID-19)

Policies of other Massachusetts universities:
Statistics:

Coronavirus daily cases per capita (snapshot as of Dec. 5, 2020)
 (Numbers are averaged over the previous 7-day period unless otherwise indicated.)
  Northeastern University (~14 daily cases; ~10,000?? people on campus):   140 daily cases per 100,000
  Boston (467 daily cases on Dec. 4; 695,000 people): 67 daily cases per 100,000
  Massachusetts (4,221 daily cases; 6.9 million people): 61 daily cases per 100,000
  United States (191,524 daily cases; 328.2 million people): 58 daily cases per 100,000
  Canada (6,302 daily cases; 37.5 million people): 17 daily cases per 100,000

To place this in local Northeastern terms, we have a class of 36 students, plus instructor and information assistant. We can expect one of us from this class to test positive for Covid-19 every 19 days (every 100,000/140/38 days).

[ Historical snapshots of Covid-19 at Northeastern U. during this semester. ]

Coronavirus deaths per capita around the world:
CDC Guidance:

As of the evening of Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, the CDC guidance once more supports the contact testing that is in effect at Northeastern University and the State of Massachusetts. However, the newest version of the CDC guidance is now silent on whether it is a good idea to do public health surveillance of Covid-19 using antigen testing (as done at Northeastern University and most other universities in America). Clearly, Northeastern University and other universities remain committed to this regime of public health surveillance, in order to maintain a safe campus.

For those who like to delve deeper, here is my web page, with the three versions of the CDC guidance on testing.