Updated: April 29, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including receiving a vaccine, wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options. ASU also has on-campus vaccine sites for students, faculty and staff, and members of the public. 

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have decreased since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 4 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.02% confirmed positive. That compares with 7 in our last update.
• 76 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.1% confirmed positive. That compares with 91 in our last update.
  • 71 of the 76 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 5 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 7,487 students live.
  • There are no students in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 827 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 404 students live on the ASU West campus; and 597 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 04/19 - 04/25 = 87
  • Positives = 1
  • Percent Positive = 1.15 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 7,008
  • Positives = 117
  • Percent Positive = 1.67 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 04/19 - 04/25 = 117
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,736
  • Positives = 69
  • Percent Positive = 1.02 % 

Employees

• Tests from 04/19 - 04/25 = 88
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00 %
• Cumulative Tests = 9,103
  • Positives = 56
  • Percent Positive = 0.62 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 89,059 (previously 88,032) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 88 percent of students living on campus and about 27 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,869 (previously 1,851)
• Faculty and staff: 338 (previously 336)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,997 (previously 5,979)
• Faculty and staff: 718 (previously 716)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,614 (previously 2,580)
• Faculty and staff: 432 (previously 428)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,707* (previously 6,673)
• Faculty and staff: 791** (previously 786)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 29, 2021 is 881. The seven-day trailing average is 743.1. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU a Leader in Vaccinating the Community

ASU opened an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination site in late January, focusing on health/lab workers, older employees and those in high-public-contact positions on campus. That has since expanded to all employees, and in early April the university opened vaccination appointments to all on-campus ASU students. The student appointments are available on all four campuses in metro Phoenix.

Staff, faculty and students can sign up for an appointment via My Health Portal; they are also welcome to sign up for vaccination through the Arizona Department of Health Services for any public point of distribution site.

On April 12, in cooperation with Arizona Department of Health Services, ASU opened a new indoor COVID-19 public vaccination site on its Tempe campus at Desert Financial Arena. The Desert Financial Arena site is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments continue to be required and can be accessed through the ADHS website at azhealth.gov/findvaccine.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency.  
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 26, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including receiving a vaccine, wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options. ASU also has on-campus vaccine sites for students, faculty and staff, and members of the public. 

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have decreased since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 7 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.03% confirmed positive. That compares with 8 in our last update.
• 91 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.12% confirmed positive. That compares with 98 in our last update.
  • 82 of the 91 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 8 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 7,730 students live.
  • One student is in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 865 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 408 students live on the ASU West campus; and 619 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 04/19 - 04/25 = 87
  • Positives = 1
  • Percent Positive = 1.15 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 7,008
  • Positives = 117
  • Percent Positive = 1.67 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 04/19 - 04/25 = 117
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,736
  • Positives = 69
  • Percent Positive = 1.02 % 

Employees

• Tests from 04/19 - 04/25 = 88
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00 %
• Cumulative Tests = 9,103
  • Positives = 56
  • Percent Positive = 0.62 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 88,032 (previously 87,011) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 88 percent of students living on campus and about 26 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,851 (previously 1,841)
• Faculty and staff: 336 (previously 336)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,979 (previously 5,969)
• Faculty and staff: 716 (previously 716)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,580 (previously 2,548)
• Faculty and staff: 428 (previously 427)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,673* (previously 6,641)
• Faculty and staff: 786** (previously 785)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 26, 2021 is 750. The seven-day trailing average is 719.1. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU a Leader in Vaccinating the Community

ASU opened an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination site in late January, focusing on health/lab workers, older employees and those in high-public-contact positions on campus. That has since expanded to all employees, and in early April the university opened vaccination appointments to all on-campus ASU students. The student appointments are available on all four campuses in metro Phoenix.

Staff, faculty and students can sign up for an appointment via My Health Portal; they are also welcome to sign up for vaccination through the Arizona Department of Health Services for any public point of distribution site.

On April 12, ASU opened a new indoor COVID-19 public vaccination site on its Tempe campus at Desert Financial Arena. The Desert Financial Arena site is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments continue to be required and can be accessed through the ADHS website at azhealth.gov/findvaccine.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency.  
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 22, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including receiving a vaccine, wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options. ASU also has on-campus vaccine sites for students, faculty and staff, and members of the public. 

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have been steady since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 8 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.04% confirmed positive. That compares with 10 in our last update.
• 98 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.13% confirmed positive. That compares with 97 in our last update.
  • 89 of the 98 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 8 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 7,939 students live.
  • One student is in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 931 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 426 students live on the ASU West campus; and 649 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 04/12 - 04/18 = 217
  • Positives = 2
  • Percent Positive = 0.92 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,932
  • Positives = 115
  • Percent Positive = 1.66 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 04/12 - 04/18 = 258
  • Positives = 6
  • Percent Positive = 2.33%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,625
  • Positives = 70
  • Percent Positive = 1.06 % 

Employees

• Tests from 04/12 - 04/18 = 223
  • Positives = 1
  • Percent Positive = 0.45 %
• Cumulative Tests = 9,023
  • Positives = 56
  • Percent Positive = 0.62 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 87,011 (previously 85,584) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 88 percent of students living on campus and about 26 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,841 (previously 1,808)
• Faculty and staff: 336 (previously 334)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,969 (previously 5,936)
• Faculty and staff: 716 (previously 714)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,548 (previously 2,522)
• Faculty and staff: 427 (previously 424)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,641* (previously 6,615)
• Faculty and staff: 785** (previously 782)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 22, 2021 is 649. The seven-day trailing average is 648.4. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU a Leader in Vaccinating the Community

ASU opened an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination site in late January, focusing on health/lab workers, older employees and those in high-public-contact positions on campus. That has since expanded to all employees, and in early April the university opened vaccination appointments to all on-campus ASU students. The student appointments are available on all four campuses in metro Phoenix.

Staff, faculty and students can sign up for an appointment via My Health Portal; they are also welcome to sign up for vaccination through the Arizona Department of Health Services for any public point of distribution site.

On April 12, ASU opened a new indoor COVID-19 public vaccination site on its Tempe campus at Desert Financial Arena. The Desert Financial Arena site is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments continue to be required and can be accessed through the ADHS website at azhealth.gov/findvaccine.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency.  
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 19, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including receiving a vaccine, wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options. ASU also has on-campus vaccine sites for students, faculty and staff, and members of the public. 

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have increased since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 10 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.05% confirmed positive. That compares with 7 in our last update.
• 97 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.13% confirmed positive. That compares with 98 in our last update.
  • 85 of the 97 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 12 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 7,965 students live.
  • No students are in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 937 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 428 students live on the ASU West campus; and 652 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 04/12 - 04/18 = 217
  • Positives = 2
  • Percent Positive = 0.92 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,932
  • Positives = 115
  • Percent Positive = 1.66 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 04/12 - 04/18 = 258
  • Positives = 6
  • Percent Positive = 2.33%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,625
  • Positives = 70
  • Percent Positive = 1.06 % 

Employees

• Tests from 04/12 - 04/18 = 223
  • Positives = 1
  • Percent Positive = 0.45 %
• Cumulative Tests = 9,023
  • Positives = 56
  • Percent Positive = 0.62 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 85,584 (previously 83,904) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 88 percent of students living on campus and about 26 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,808 (previously 1,779)
• Faculty and staff: 334 (previously 329)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,936 (previously 5,907)
• Faculty and staff: 714 (previously 709)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,522 (previously 2,486)
• Faculty and staff: 424 (previously 420)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,615* (previously 6,579)
• Faculty and staff: 782** (previously 778)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 19, 2021 is 692. The seven-day trailing average is 602.4. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU a Leader in Vaccinating the Community

ASU opened an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination site in late January, focusing on health/lab workers, older employees and those in high-public-contact positions on campus. That has since expanded to all employees, and in early April the university opened vaccination appointments to all on-campus ASU students. The student appointments are available on all four campuses in metro Phoenix.

Staff, faculty and students can sign up for an appointment via My Health Portal; they are also welcome to sign up for vaccination through the Arizona Department of Health Services for any public point of distribution site.

On April 12, ASU opened a new indoor COVID-19 public vaccination site on its Tempe campus at Desert Financial Arena. The Desert Financial Arena site is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments continue to be required and can be accessed through the ADHS website at azhealth.gov/findvaccine.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency.  
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 15, 2021 @ 9:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including receiving a vaccine, wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options. ASU also has on-campus vaccine sites for students, faculty and staff, and members of the public. 

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have increased since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 7 known positives among 21,412* faculty and staff, which is 0.03% confirmed positive. That compares with 5 in our last update.
• 98 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.13% confirmed positive. That compares with 81 in our last update.
  • 86 of the 98 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 12 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 8,023 students live.
  • No students are in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 941 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 427 students live on the ASU West campus; and 656 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 04/05 - 04/11 = 156
  • Positives = 4
  • Percent Positive = 2.56 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,702
  • Positives = 113
  • Percent Positive = 1.69 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 04/05 - 04/11 = 256
  • Positives = 3
  • Percent Positive = 1.17%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,361
  • Positives = 64
  • Percent Positive = 1.01 % 

Employees

• Tests from 04/05 - 04/11 = 180
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00 %
• Cumulative Tests = 8,795
  • Positives = 55
  • Percent Positive = 0.63 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 83,904 (previously 82,419) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 88 percent of students living on campus and about 25 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,779 (previously 1,742)
• Faculty and staff: 329 (previously 326)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,907 (previously 5,870)
• Faculty and staff: 709 (previously 706)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,486 (previously 2,458)
• Faculty and staff: 420 (previously 418)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,579* (previously 6,551)
• Faculty and staff: 778** (previously 776)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 15, 2021 is 460. The seven-day trailing average is 750, as of April 13. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU a Leader in Vaccinating the Community

ASU opened an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination site in late January, focusing on health/lab workers, older employees and those in high-public-contact positions on campus. That has since expanded to all employees, and in early April the university opened vaccination appointments to all on-campus ASU students. The student appointments are available on all four campuses in metro Phoenix.

Staff, faculty and students can sign up for an appointment via My Health Portal; they are also welcome to sign up for vaccination through the Arizona Department of Health Services for any public point of distribution site.

On April 12, ASU opened a new indoor COVID-19 public vaccination site on its Tempe campus at Desert Financial Arena. The Desert Financial Arena site is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments continue to be required and can be accessed through the ADHS website at azhealth.gov/findvaccine.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency.  
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 12, 2021 @ 7:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including receiving a vaccine, wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options. ASU also has on-campus vaccine sites for students, faculty and staff, and members of the public. 

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have increased since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 5 known positives among 21,412* faculty and staff, which is 0.02% confirmed positive. That compares with 4 in our last update.
• 81 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.11% confirmed positive. That compares with 63 in our last update.
  • 71 of the 81 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 10 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 8,038 students live.
  • No students are in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 940 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 428 students live on the ASU West campus; and 659 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 04/05 - 04/11 = 156
  • Positives = 4
  • Percent Positive = 2.56 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,702
  • Positives = 113
  • Percent Positive = 1.69 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 04/05 - 04/11 = 256
  • Positives = 3
  • Percent Positive = 1.17%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,361
  • Positives = 64
  • Percent Positive = 1.01 % 

Employees

• Tests from 04/05 - 04/11 = 180
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00 %
• Cumulative Tests = 8,795
  • Positives = 55
  • Percent Positive = 0.63 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 82,419 (previously 81,025) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 88 percent of students living on campus and about 25 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,742 (previously 1,704)
• Faculty and staff: 326 (previously 324)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,870 (previously 5,832)
• Faculty and staff: 706 (previously 704)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,458 (previously 2,435)
• Faculty and staff: 418 (previously 417)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,551* (previously 6,528)
• Faculty and staff: 776** (previously 775)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 12, 2021 is 675. The seven-day trailing average is 761. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU a Leader in Vaccinating the Community

ASU opened an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination site in late January, focusing on health/lab workers, older employees and those in high-public-contact positions on campus. That has since expanded to all employees, and in early April the university opened vaccination appointments to all on-campus ASU students. The student appointments are available on all four campuses in metro Phoenix.

Staff, faculty and students can sign up for an appointment via My Health Portal; they are also welcome to sign up for vaccination through the Arizona Department of Health Services for any public point of distribution site.

On April 12, ASU opened a new indoor COVID-19 public vaccination site on its Tempe campus at Desert Financial Arena. The Desert Financial Arena site is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments continue to be required and can be accessed through the ADHS website at azhealth.gov/findvaccine.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency.  
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 8, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options.

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have increased slightly since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 4 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.02% confirmed positive. That compares with 5 in our last update.
• 63 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.08% confirmed positive. That compares with 57 in our last update.
  • 58 of the 63 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 4 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 8,050 students live.
  • One student is in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 940 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 432 students live on the ASU West campus; and 664 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 03/29 - 04/04 = 252
  • Positives = 3
  • Percent Positive = 1.19 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,538
  • Positives = 109
  • Percent Positive = 1.67 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 03/29 - 04/04 = 318
  • Positives = 3
  • Percent Positive = 0.94%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,100
  • Positives = 61
  • Percent Positive = 1.00 % 

Employees

• Tests from 03/29 - 04/04 = 231
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00 %
• Cumulative Tests = 8,613
  • Positives = 55
  • Percent Positive = 0.64 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 81,025 (previously 79,549) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 87 percent of students living on campus and about 25 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,704 (previously 1,680)
• Faculty and staff: 324 (previously 324)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,832 (previously 5,808)
• Faculty and staff: 704 (previously 704)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,435 (previously 2,414)
• Faculty and staff: 417 (previously 416)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,528* (previously 6,507)
• Faculty and staff: 775** (previously 774)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 8, 2021 is 670. The seven-day trailing average is 672.6. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency. ASU also operates a vaccination site at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, as well as a smaller vaccination site on campus for the ASU community. 
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 5, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options.

• Arizona cases have decreased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community are the same as in our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 5 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.02% confirmed positive. That compares with 5 in our last update.
• 57 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.08% confirmed positive. That compares with 57 in our last update.
  • 51 of the 57 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 4 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 8,054 students live.
  • Two students are in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 940 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 434 students live on the ASU West campus; and 664 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 03/29 - 04/04 = 252
  • Positives = 3
  • Percent Positive = 1.19 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,538
  • Positives = 109
  • Percent Positive = 1.67 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 03/29 - 04/04 = 318
  • Positives = 3
  • Percent Positive = 0.94%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,100
  • Positives = 61
  • Percent Positive = 1.00 % 

Employees

• Tests from 03/29 - 04/04 = 231
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00 %
• Cumulative Tests = 8,613
  • Positives = 55
  • Percent Positive = 0.64 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 79,549 (previously 78,002) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 87 percent of students living on campus and about 25 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,680 (previously 1,662)
• Faculty and staff: 324 (previously 323)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,808 (previously 5,790)
• Faculty and staff: 704 (previously 703)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,414 (previously 2,396)
• Faculty and staff: 416 (previously 415)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,507* (previously 6,489)
• Faculty and staff: 774** (previously 773)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 5, 2021 is 608. The seven-day trailing average is 631.1. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency. ASU also operates a vaccination site at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, as well as a smaller vaccination site on campus for the ASU community. 
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.

Updated: April 1, 2021 @ 6:00 p.m. 

ASU provides twice-weekly updates on our COVID-19 Management Strategy, which supports virus management efforts at the state, local and university levels. ASU has been managing COVID-19 cases since January 2020.

Remain vigilant against the virus by continuing to follow all public health protocols, including wearing a face covering and practicing physical distancing. ASU continues to offer fast, easy and free COVID-19 testing to all students, employees and the general public. Visit our testing webpage to explore testing options.

• Arizona cases have increased in recent days. 
• Known positive cases in the ASU community have decreased overall since our last report.
• There is no change in the university’s housing or learning modes of operation.

ASU COVID-19 Situational Update

ASU has previously published its COVID management framework. In short, it is our expectation that COVID-19 is here to stay and we must operate the university in a way that accounts for the ongoing presence of the virus. That is why we invested in testing technology, built daily health check apps and established extensive protocols to help manage the virus in our community. ASU is following all CDC guidelines related to higher education.

Current positive case count:

• 5 known positives among 21,522* faculty and staff, which is 0.02% confirmed positive. That compares with 7 in our last update.
• 57 known positives among our student body of 74,500 (excluding ASU Online), which is 0.08% confirmed positive. That compares with 56 in our last update.
  • 47 of the 57 are off campus in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
  • 9 are in isolation on the ASU Tempe campus, where 8,056 students live.
  • One student is in isolation on the ASU Downtown Phoenix, ASU West, or Polytechnic campuses. A total of 940 students live in university housing on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus; 434 students live on the ASU West campus; and 665 students live on the ASU Polytechnic campus.

*Includes all full- and part-time employees from ASU, ASU Preparatory Academy and ASU Enterprise Partners.

Weekly random testing results

ASU tests anyone who is symptomatic, and has tests available free of charge for any student or employee who wants one. In addition, ASU launched required, random testing of students and employees on Aug. 27, 2020. Starting with the spring semester, we aim to test approximately 25% of the on-campus students and staff each week to determine current trends with the virus. This data is updated each Monday evening. Current results specific to the random testing program are:

On-campus students

• Tests from 03/22 - 03/28 = 286
  • Positives = 6
  • Percent Positive = 2.10 %
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 6,334
  • Positives = 109
  • Percent Positive = 1.72 %

Off-campus students

• Tests from 03/22 - 03/28 = 371
  • Positives = 0
  • Percent Positive = 0.00%
• Cumulative Tests from Jan 1 = 5,741
  • Positives = 55
  • Percent Positive = 0.96 % 

Employees

• Tests from 03/22 - 03/28 = 315
  • Positives = 1
  • Percent Positive = 0.32 %
• Cumulative Tests = 8,381
  • Positives = 55
  • Percent Positive = 0.66 %

ASU Cumulative Information

Since Jan. 1, 2021, ASU has collected more than 78,002 (previously 76,314) Biodesign Institute test results from students and employees. Since Jan. 1, ASU has tested about 87 percent of students living on campus and about 24 percent of students living off campus.

In addition, ASU collected about 181,000 test results from students and employees between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Cumulative number of positive tests since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 1,662 (previously 1,643)
• Faculty and staff: 323 (previously 322)

Cumulative number of positive tests since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 5,790 (previously 5,771)
• Faculty and staff: 703 (previously 702)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Jan. 1, 2021

• Students: 2,396 (previously 2,377)
• Faculty and staff: 415 (previously 412)

Cumulative number of individuals no longer positive/medically cleared for release since Aug. 1, 2020

• Students: 6,489* (previously 6,470)
• Faculty and staff: 773** (previously 770)

*This number is based on students who were positive as a result of a Biodesign test. This number also includes ASU students who were positive cases prior to August 1.
** This number includes ASU employees who were positive cases prior to August 1. 

Additional information

Statewide COVID-19 Trend Analysis Produced by ASU Epidemiology Group

Total positive tests reported for April 1, 2021 is 381. The seven-day trailing average is 600.7. ASU’s  critical COVID-19 trend data is updated daily and accessible by the public.

Read the latest statewide COVID Epidemiology Situation Report produced by ASU faculty, which provides a significant summary of COVID-19 activity at the state and (Maricopa) county level dating back to April 1, 2020.

ASU now offering Devils’ drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing

To expand testing availability and access for the ASU community, the university is now offering individual drop-off COVID-19 saliva testing to all students, faculty and staff.

Devils’ drop-off doesn’t require an appointment. Just pick up a test kit from an on-campus location, register it online and drop it off once you’ve collected your saliva sample. Pick-up and drop-off locations are available on all four ASU campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Visit the Devils’ drop-off webpage for pick-up and drop-off location maps and more details.

ASU Support for Statewide Efforts to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

Since the start of the pandemic, ASU has mobilized resources to help the state and our communities combat the spread of COVID-19. Below is a sampling of our ongoing efforts. ASU:

• Is a key partner in the 24/7 COVID-19 public vaccination site, lauded by the White House for its efficiency. ASU also operates a vaccination site at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, as well as a smaller vaccination site on campus for the ASU community. 
• Was awarded $12.5 million to research COVID-19 immune response and help improve patient outcomes. ASU will join the National Cancer Institute’s Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), the nation’s largest coordinated effort to study people’s immune response to COVID-19.
• Landed a $6 million grant to develop a new, portable saliva-based COVID-19 testing device that will deliver results in as little as 20 minutes.
• Established and operates a clinically-approved and certified COVID-19 testing lab
• Developed, deployed and continues to enhance the first saliva-based test in the western U.S.
• Operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout Arizona, testing thousands for the virus each week, including critical infrastructure/utility personnel, first responders and healthcare workers
• Designed, deployed and manages an online network of 3D printers and sewing machines to rapidly produce PPE for local hospitals and health care providers throughout Arizona
• Provides daily key data and analysis to track and predict the spread of the pandemic and its impact
• Launched an online platform with resources for students, parents, educators, remote workers and health care professionals to promote resilience and continued education during the pandemic
• Assists businesses with reopening plans

More information about these efforts can be found in this recently published six-month review of how ASU’s research enterprise and the community have united against the pandemic. 

ASU Actively Monitoring Campus Neighborhood Trends

ASU is well aware that our community extends beyond the borders of our campuses. We work with businesses surrounding our campuses that students and employees often visit so they understand our expectations around enforcing public health protocols during the pandemic. ASU also works with housing developments where large numbers of our students reside to communicate our expectations for conduct and behavior, including the fact that parties and large gatherings that violate public health guidelines are prohibited.

ASU also is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services to analyze and produce data from the zip codes in which our campuses (including residence halls) are located to better understand virus trends at the local level. 

ASU Learning Modes of Operation

Learning Mode 1: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in person and on campus unless otherwise indicated. For select, indicated courses, instruction will also be available to students digitally through ASU Sync or asynchronously as an iCourse. ASU Community of Care requirements will continue, and specific details will be relayed in the coming months. (Updated Feb. 15, 2021.)

Learning Mode 2: Instruction is delivered to students by faculty in a hybrid fashion. Courses are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity and are also available to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements. Students can choose their preferred learning environment to accommodate their needs. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester. This mode will continue until circumstances permit it to move up or require it to move down.

Learning Mode 3: The majority of courses are delivered to students digitally through ASU Sync and iCourses. A limited number of courses that do not translate to a digital environment such as labs and performing arts, are offered in-person, on-campus at a reduced capacity. All faculty, staff and students are required to comply with public health requirements.

Learning Mode 4: Instruction is delivered to students digitally only through ASU Sync, iCourses and ASU Online. There is no in-person classroom instruction at all. 

ASU University Housing Modes of Operation

University Housing Mode 1:  Regular Mode of Operation: Residence halls at full capacity.  External visitors allowed in buildings. 

University Housing Mode 2: Limited Mode of Operations: ASU fills residence halls at lowered capacity to provide for flexibility in self-isolation and quarantine spaces.  Guests in residence hall rooms are limited to those within the hall. This is the mode in which ASU started the fall semester.

University Housing Mode 3: Increase security and enforcement; restrict ingress with no external visitors and one guest per room from within the same residence hall at any given time; de-densify higher risk living configurations with communal bathrooms and communal living situations; housing removal for repeat violations; and facilitate single occupancy and process approved housing License Agreement Release requests. This is the mode ASU is currently operating in.

University Housing Mode 4: Essential Only: Students who have no other options will be allowed to request an exemption to live in residence. 

University Housing Mode 5: Closed: No use of residential halls.

ASU Daily Health Check

ASU continues to monitor health check data for students and employees coming to campus. Overall compliance rates remain consistent.  The HealthCheck platform was designed by Los Angeles-based Safe Health Systems, a startup that advanced as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator.  It is designed to advise users on appropriate steps to take if they are exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, including staying home, contacting a healthcare provider and potentially getting a COVID-19 test.

*Reduced engagement beginning 10/31 due to app update to allow “off campus” designation by week or extended time.