Some notes on the ASU Covid data published last night.

First, ASU is STILL lying about its positivity rates by calculating based on total population instead of people tested. This is inexcusable.

https://biodesign.asu.edu/research/clinical-testing/asu-covid-19-management-framework

Last week, after being called out for their incorrect positivity rate by media and health experts, ASU promised to change but still hasn't. https://www.statepress.com/article/2020/08/spcommunity-university-updates-dashboard-with-more-data

556 of the 957 students who have tested positive are off-campus students, meaning they are possibly spreading in the wider community, ASU has no way to know if they are isolating or not, and many of these will never show up in the 85281 Zip Code data.

ASU claims 369 on-campus students are in isolation on the Tempe campus, but "isolation" is an extremely loose term. Many are living on floors with students who have not tested positive and community assistants, who manage the dorms, are not allowed to know who has tested positive

Finally, there has been no announced change to the contact tracing procedures, which don't count classmates and professors as close contacts, despite the evidence this week that in at least one case, proper social distancing procedures are not being followed in the classroom.