COVID-19 at Whitman
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This page is no longer being updated and contains historic COVID-19 data. For current statistics, please visit our COVID-19 Dashboard.
Spring 2021 Data
This dashboard shows confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the faculty, staff and students currently approved to be on campus at Whitman as well as anyone who is not approved to be on campus but is living in Walla Walla and has voluntarily reported a confirmed COVID-19 case. The data below is for the Spring 2021 Semester.
All Test Results January 15 – May 16, 2021
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Total Confirmed Cases
16,734
Total Tests Administered
0.09%
Overall Surveillance Testing Positivity Rate
2.25%
Cumulative Positivity Rate
Weekly History of Testing Data
The cards below show weekly testing data for the Spring 2021 semester. This information is also accumulated in the Spring 2021 COVID-19 Testing Results spreadsheet.
May 10–16, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 3
- Active Cases: 5
- Tests Administered: 768
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 624
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 3%
- Campus Population Vaccinated: 62.1%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
May 3–9, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 2
- Active Cases: 4
- Tests Administered: 895
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 659
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.15%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 1%
- Campus Population Vaccinated: 49.8%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
April 26–May 2, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 2
- Active Cases: 3
- Tests Administered: 762
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 642
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.16%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Campus Population Vaccinated: 43.9%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
April 19-25, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 1
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 1
- Tests Administered: 804
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 667
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Campus Population Vaccinated: 35.5%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
April 12-18, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 0
- Tests Administered: 771
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 625
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Campus Population Vaccinated: 20.6%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
April 5-11, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 0
- Tests Administered: 847
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 708
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
March 29-April 4, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 0
- Tests Administered: 873
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 733
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
March 22-28, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 1
- Tests Administered: 834
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 661
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Threshold Action Level: Low
March 15-21, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 1
- Active Cases: 1
- Tests Administered: 800
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 643
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.16%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
March 8-14, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 0
- Tests Administered: 759
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 629
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 0%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
March 1-7, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 0
- Tests Administered: 875
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 696
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 1%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
February 22-28, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 0
- Active Cases: 1
- Tests Administered: 888
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 758
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 0
- Positivity Rate: 0.0%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 1%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
February 15-21, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 1
- Active Cases: 15
- Tests Administered: 556
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 240
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.42%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 5%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
Note: Surveillance testing data is incomplete for the week of February 15 – 21 due to weather-related shipping delays that held up test processing. The delayed test results will be incorporated into next week’s data, the week in which the results are received.
February 8-14, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 1
- Positive Tests – Students: 13
- Active Cases: 17
- Tests Administered: 1185
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 660
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 4
- Positivity Rate: 0.61%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 13%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
February 1-7, 2021
Weekly data
- Positive Tests – Employees: 1
- Positive Tests – Students: 2
- Active Cases: 7
- Tests Administered: 927
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested:730
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.14%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 2%
- Threshold Action Level: Medium
January 25-31, 2021
Weekly data
Data for January 25-31, 2021
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 4
- Active Cases: 9
- Tests Administered: 1,212
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 1,050
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.1%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 2%
- Threshold Action Level: High (The Threshold Action Level was designated as high during the initial campus quarantine period.)
January 18-24, 2021
Weekly data
January 18-24, 2021 was the second week of the campus-wide baseline COVID-19 testing process.
- Positive Tests – Employees: 0
- Positive Tests – Students: 5
- Active Cases: 7
- Tests Administered: 1,876
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 1,719
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.06%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 3%
- Threshold Action Level: High (The Threshold Action Level was designated as high during the initial campus quarantine period.)
January 11-17, 2021
Weekly data
January 12-17, 2021 was the first week of the campus-wide baseline COVID-19 testing process.
- Positive Tests – Employees: 1
- Positive Tests – Students: 1
- Active Cases: 3
- Tests Administered: 1,102
- Surveillance Testing – Number Tested: 884
- Surveillance Testing – Number Positive: 1
- Positivity Rate: 0.1%
- Isolation Spaces Occupied: 1%
- Threshold Action Level: High (The Threshold Action Level was designated as high during the initial campus quarantine period.)
2020 Data
This dashboard shows confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the faculty, staff and students currently approved to be on campus at Whitman as well as anyone who is not approved to be on campus but is living in Walla Walla and has voluntarily reported a confirmed COVID-19 case. This page will be updated regularly to show the previous eight weeks of case numbers and the total number of cases since tracking began in March 2020.
Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 at Whitman
Last updated 1/11/2021 at 9:00 a.m.
Since March 2020: Faculty: 0 | Staff: 11 | Students: 9
Week of Jan. 11
Faculty: 0 Staff: 0 Students: 0
Week of Jan. 4
Faculty: 0 Staff: 2 Students: 1
Week of Dec. 28
Faculty: 0 Staff: 0 Students: 2
Week of Dec. 21
Faculty: 0 Staff: 0 Students: 0
Week of Dec. 14
Faculty: 0 Staff: 0 Students: 0
Week of Dec. 7
Faculty: 0 Staff: 0 Students: 0
Week of Nov. 30
Faculty: 0 Staff: 2 Students: 4
Week of Nov. 23
Faculty: 0 Staff: 1 Students: 1
Following confirmation of a COVID-19 case the following steps are taken:
- Anyone who had close contact with the individual is informed.
- The individual's work space and other places of interaction are sanitized.
- The county health department is notified and takes over the contact tracing process.
Walla Walla Information
The Walla Walla County Department of Health provides updated statistics Monday through Friday on coronavirus throughout the county.