Rice University in Houston, Texas, announced last week that the first two weeks of the fall semester would be moved online because of a higher number of COVID-19 cases among students. It now says the data the decision was based upon is flawed. In an Aug. 22 letter to the campus community, Rice’s Vice President for Administration Kevin E. Kirby said “anomalies” in the initial testing data have prompted the university to retest dozens of students deemed positive for COVID-19, and “all but one of those have turned out to be negative.” According to the letter, Rice started to ramp up its testing program on Aug. 13 with three different test providers, and conducted about 4,500 tests over 9 days with initial results showing 81 positive results. This positivity rate of 2 percent, although much lower than that of the city of Houston, was still concerning enough that the university …
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