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The Board Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Archive-It Partner Since: Jul, 2015

Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

Organization URL: http://illinois.edu/   

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Title: Singing from Balconies: COVID-19 Quarantine Testimonials

URL: https://diversity.uic.edu/diversity-education/past-events/singing-from-balconies-covid-19-quarantine-testimonials/

Collection: COVID-19 Response at the University of Illinois

Description: The Office of Diversity created “Singing from Balconies” as a space where UIC students, faculty and staff shared their thoughts and learned from each other by writing about how they experienced this change and how it impacted them, their families and communities. The name for this series of narratives or testimonies was inspired by the videos of quarantined Italians who sang together from balconies even while experiencing fear and loss.

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Subject:   COVID-19 (Disease) Pandemics

Title: Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at a large public university

URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30833-3

Collection: COVID-19 Response at the University of Illinois

Description: Abstract: In Fall 2020, universities saw extensive transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among their populations, threatening health of the university and surrounding communities, and viability of in-person instruction. Here we report a case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where a multimodal “SHIELD: Target, Test, and Tell” program, with other non-pharmaceutical interventions, was employed to keep classrooms and laboratories open. The program included epidemiological modeling and surveillance, fast/frequent testing using a novel low-cost and scalable saliva-based RT-qPCR assay for SARS-CoV-2 that bypasses RNA extraction, called covidSHIELD, and digital tools for communication and compliance. In Fall 2020, we performed >1,000,000 covidSHIELD tests, positivity rates remained low, we had zero COVID-19-related hospitalizations or deaths amongst our university community, and mortality in the surrounding Champaign County was reduced more than 4-fold relative to expected. This case study shows that fast/frequent testing and other interventions mitigated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at a large public university.

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Subject:   The Mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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