Most New Broome COVID Infections Linked to B.U. Students

Broome County Executive Jason Garnar says over half of the new coronavirus infections in the county this week continue to come from people age 18 to 24, mainly Binghamton University students.

Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News (file)

While the number of infections reported March 9 increased by 70, the number of people currently in the hospital with COVID 19 remains relatively low at 60.

Garnar has said while students are driving the positivity numbers, they are not showing up in local hospitals.

Get our free mobile app

According to the State University of New York COVID Tracker, there were 54 positive tests among Binghamton University students in a three-day rolling average, 183 over seven days for a rolling seven-day positivity rate of 2.35% among students. Five employees tested positive over the week. The total positives at Binghamton University for the seven days was 188 with a seven-day positivity rate of 1.97%.

County health officials say the student infections can’t be traced to a single event and the coronavirus is not apparently being spread in the classroom.

LOOK: Milestones in women's history from the year you were born

Women have left marks on everything from entertainment and music to space exploration, athletics, and technology. Each passing year and new milestone makes it clear both how recent this history-making is in relation to the rest of the country, as well as how far we still need to go. The resulting timeline shows that women are constantly making history worthy of best-selling biographies and classroom textbooks; someone just needs to write about them.

Scroll through to find out when women in the U.S. and around the world won rights, the names of women who shattered the glass ceiling, and which country's women banded together to end a civil war.

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19

Categories: Articles, Education, Health, Local News, News