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The dashboard can be accessed here. It will be updated by 5 p.m. daily to reflect positive, documented cases confirmed the previous day. Cases reported between Friday and Sunday will be posted on the following Monday.
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Hebert co-chaired the Ragin小蝌蚪APP Cajun Resiliency Plan Task Force. The panel of administrators, students, faculty and staff members worked throughout the summer to establish guidelines for the safe resumption of on-campus courses, residential life and activities this fall.
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The dashboard displays a weekly case number as well as a running total that reflects cases reported since March 16. It also enables users to scan weekly totals starting in mid-March.
Both student and employee positive cases are included. Student totals come from tests performed by UL Lafayette小蝌蚪APP檚 ; those performed in the ; and from student workers who provide documentation of their illnesses to the .
Employee numbers are derived from documentation received by Human Resources.
All numbers reflect when a case was reported, not necessarily when a student or employee contracted the virus. In addition, the total number of positive cases does not mean that小蝌蚪APP檚 how many cases may be on campus at any particular time, Hebert said.
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