LSU interim president Thomas Galligan says the university has reported 366 COVID-19 cases since August 15th. In addition to a symptom tracker feature, Galligan says the LSU website has a COVID dashboard that will be updated Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4 PM with the latest data.
“That’s faculty, staff, and students. It’s self-reported either through that symptom tracker or we somehow otherwise find out from a person,” said Galligan.
Videos have surfaced of large student parties. Galligan says he has seen the clips and he says the school is investigating them and if it is a student organization putting together events, there will be repercussions from the school. Galligan says right now, four student organizations are in the conduct process.
“That means that they’ve been charged with some sort of violation of our code of conduct. We have three or four ongoing investigations into allegations of organizational misconduct,” said Galligan.
Galligan says no single number defines whether to classes will go fully remote, but there will be an analysis of various metrics including student and faculty positive tests, plus faculty and staff absenteeism, just to name a few.
“Capacity to isolate, capacity to quarantine, if we can do it in a place that increases that capacity, what’s the spread in the area, hospital capacity in the area,” said Galligan.
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