SALISBURY, Md. - Salisbury University has seen a significant jump in cases of COVID-19 among students, staff and faculty as the school wrapped up efforts to make sure everyone on campus get tested this week.
According to SU's COVID-19 Dashboard, there were 234 positive results from the 3,603 tests administered between Wednesday Sept. 2 and Tuesday Sept. 8.
"That's good news and bad news," said Jason Rhodes, the public information officer for SU. "That's bad news because our goal, our baseline, is to stay below 5%t. The good news is that we are not far off from the Wicomico County average which is 6.3% as of this morning. So, we are keeping pace but that's not necessarily a pace that we want to keep."
Rhodes says the university wrapped up testing the roughly 7,000 students, faculty and staff Wednesday and he expects the most recent results to come out in the near future, possibly this weekend. If the overall case rate peaks consistently above 15% or if the weekly positivity case average remains above 5%, then decisions with how to proceed with on-campus learning will have to be made.