About this data

The News' COVID-19 dashboard is based on data from the Yale COVID-19 Statistics webpage, which reflects data for both Yale's asymptomatic testing program as well as tests given to symptomatic students. Yale's data is generally delayed by two to three days, and the News updates our dashboard each time Yale publicly releases its latest counts. Yale has de-duplicated these numbers so that students who test positive multiple times are only counted the first time, and so that total tests given reflects the number of unique individuals tested on a single day. The News' data begins on January 8th, 2021.

Visualizations by Omar Chishti and Daniel Kim.

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VALERIE PAVILONIS

Yale reports first undergraduate COVID-19 case

As students return to New Haven before classes, administrators on Wednesday announced the first reported case of COVID-19 among Yale College students on campus. In […]

August 27, 2020

WILLIAM MCCORMACK & CHARLOTTE ZIMMER

Blumenthal, Murphy praise SalivaDirect after visiting Yale School of Public Health

Both U.S. senators expressed optimism about SalivaDirect and their eagerness to assist with scaling the testing protocol for more widespread use.

August 26, 2020

WILLIAM MCCORMACK & CHARLOTTE ZIMMER

Automation, pooling could come next for SalivaDirect as research team juggles authorization requests, media attention

After receiving Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA on Saturday, researchers have been inundated with a swarm of media attention and hundreds of emailed authorization requests.

August 19, 2020

ROSE HOROWITCH

School of Public Health study says students may be able to safely return to campus

As the fall semester nears and universities grapple with what to expect when students return to campus, one study out of the School of Public […]

August 18, 2020

CHARLOTTE ZIMMER

YSPH professor criticized for promoting unproven drug to treat COVID-19

Yale School of Public Health professor Harvey Risch has been a vocal supporter of the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, despite a lack of […]

August 16, 2020

WILLIAM MCCORMACK & CHARLOTTE ZIMMER

With data from NBA study, FDA extends Emergency Use Authorization to Yale’s SalivaDirect COVID-19 test

The test is inexpensive, non-invasive and validated for use with reagents and instruments from multiple vendors, which researchers hope will minimize supply chain bottlenecks.

August 15, 2020

ROSE HOROWITCH & VALERIE PAVILONIS

Junior sues Yale for spring tuition refund

A Yale junior filed a class-action lawsuit last week against the University for its refusal to refund tuition for the online half of the spring […]

August 3, 2020

ROSE HOROWITCH

Yale epidemiologist pens letter denouncing White House attacks on Anthony Fauci

Several Yale professors have joined 3,500 public health experts to deliver a blunt message to the Trump administration: stop downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic and start […]

July 31, 2020

VALERIE PAVILONIS & MATT KRISTOFFERSEN

80 percent of students to enroll in fall 2020

An email circulated among department heads reported that about a fifth of all Yale College students have chosen not to enroll for the upcoming semester. […]

July 30, 2020

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN

Summer 2020: Coronavirus upended student plans, tightened wallets

Yale students often make good use of their summers: They work. They study. Some even train for the Olympics. But in the wake of a […]

July 26, 2020

VALERIE PAVILONIS & MATT KRISTOFFERSEN

New DHS rules bring uncertainty for international students

New guidelines released early this week from the Department of Homeland Security suggest that international students who do not take in-person classes this fall could […]

July 11, 2020