Jennifer Smola, Columbus Dispatch Published 5:51 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2020 CLOSE Eighty students and 12 faculty and staff members at Ohio State University have tested positive for COVID-19, according to newly released testing data. The positive tests amount to 1.2% of tested students and 1.4% of tested faculty and staff members, Ohio State announced Tuesday as it released a university coronavirus-data dashboard. The student data comes from testing conducted from Aug. 14 through Saturday, while the faculty and staff data comes from testing conducted from Aug. 1 through Saturday. From those testing time frames, the university has test results from more than 7,700 members of the university community. The data includes results from mandatory and voluntary testing of asymptomatic students and from students who sought tests due to symptoms or other reasons. Incoming Ohio State President Kristina M. Johnson announced the test results and data dashboard for the campus community…
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