Penn State news by
Penn State's student blog

Topics

More

For First Time In Months, Penn State Athletics Reports Zero COVID-19 Positives

Penn State Athletics reported zero positive COVID-19 tests among its student-athletes last week, according to the department’s weekly testing report.

Penn State administered 282 COVID-19 tests to student-athletes between May 8 and 14, resulting in zero positives. It was the first week without a single positive since August.

It’s not much of a surprise Penn State’s positives bottomed out last week. Reported positives among student-athletes had declined greatly this spring after topping out with 50 positives in one week in mid-September.

To date, Penn State Athletics has reported 424 positive tests since testing began last summer. It’s also performed nearly 55,000 individual tests.

Starting next week, Athletics will no longer report testing results on its own. Instead, they’ll be automatically rolled into Penn State’s COVID-19 Dashboard, which already factors Athletics’ figures into reported totals.

Your ad blocker is on.

Please choose an option below.

Sign up for our e-mail newsletter:
OR
Support quality journalism:
Purchase a Subscription!

About the Author

Matt DiSanto

Matt proudly served as Onward State’s managing editor for two years until graduating from Penn State in May 2022. Now, he’s off in the real world doing real things. Send him an email ([email protected]) or follow him on Twitter (@mattdisanto_) to stay in touch.

Hungry Dogs Run Faster: Matt Brown’s Senior Column

“Thank you for everything, Blog.”

Penn State History Lesson: The 2008 Mifflin Streak Lawsuits

Due to precedent set in 2008, participants of the annual naked run cannot be arrested for public indecency or lewdness.

Reimagining Luke Combs’ Lyrics For Penn State

Luke Combs would make a song about Pickle’s.

Follow on Another Platform
113kFollowers
164kFollowers
59.7kFollowers
4,570Subscribers