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TexasTowelie

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Fri Sep 18, 2020, 06:49 PM Sep 2020

Test results before UT football opener suggest silent spread

Among the 1,200 University of Texas students who were tested for the coronavirus in advance of last weekend’s football opener — a negative test was required for students to attend — 95 tested positive.

The results, among students who were not exhibiting symptoms, suggest that the virus could be silently spreading on campus to a degree not previously known.

University health officials later determined that 26 of the students who tested positive for the virus had previously tested positive and had recovered to an extent that they were no longer considered contagious.

Even if you exclude those 26 cases, the positivity rate of the nearly 1,200 students was 5.8%.

That’s a much higher positivity rate than the UT community has seen overall.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200918/test-results-before-ut-football-opener-suggest-silent-spread

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Test results before UT football opener suggest silent spread (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
Man I just don't give a crap about college football anymore texasfiddler Sep 2020 #1

texasfiddler

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1. Man I just don't give a crap about college football anymore
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 07:05 PM
Sep 2020

At one time in my life I could tell you every football player and recruit for Texas, Texas A&M, Tech, Baylor, etc. It just doesn't matter to me. I have other interests and loves in my life now. I think I'm a better person for it.

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