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These Colleges Are Winning the Fight Against Covid 19 at Least for Now

The U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Covid-19 evaluation protocol has been one of the most aggressive in higher education, with some 385,000 tests administered so far, and a seven-day case positivity rate of just 0.35 percent.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began the fall semester as a shining example of higher education’s can-do spirit: It reopened its doors for in-person instruction with an ambitious plan to test more than 40,000 students, twice a week.

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