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Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021
Dispatch

Association of Shared Living Spaces and COVID-19 in University Students, Wisconsin, USA, 2020

John Paul BigouetteComments to Author , Laura Ford, Hannah E. Segaloff, Kimberly Langolf, Juliana Kahrs, Tara Zochert, Jacqueline E. Tate, Douglas Gieryn, Hannah L. Kirking, Ryan P. Westergaard, and Marie E. Killerby
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.P. Bigouette, L. Ford, H.E. Segaloff, J.E. Tate, H.L. Kirking, M.E. Killerby); Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (H.E. Segaloff, R.P. Westergaard); University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA (K. Langolf, J. Kahrs, T. Zochert); Winnebago County Health Department, Oshkosh (D. Gieryn)

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Table 2

Characteristics of living situations for on-campus students at a university in study of coronavirus disease transmission, Wisconsin, USA, September 2–December 19, 2020

Characteristic Dormitory*
A B† C D‡ E F† G† H Overall
Suite-style dormitory‡
 No
 No
 No
 Yes
 No
 No
 No
 No
 NA
No. occupied floors 4 4 4 5 7 8 4 4 40
No. rooms 122 120 234 264 259 240 115 253 1,607
No. occupied bedrooms
 107
 110
 202
 216
 186
 218
 108
 223
 1,307
Overall dormitory occupancy rate, % 87.7 91.7 86.3 81.8 71.8 90.8 93.9 88.1 81.3
Dormitory floor occupancy rate,§ mean % (SD)
 87.7 (0.5)
 90.1 (15.9)
 86.3 (6.0)
 82.1 (6.7)
 72.2 (14.9)
 86.8 (9.3)
 89.9 (7.7)
 88.1 (2.9)
 85.4 (8.0)
No. student population 176 206 313 269 264 405 204 350 2,187
Students per dormitory floor, mean (SD)
 44.0 
(6.6)
 51.5 (15.2)
 78.3 (14.1)
 53.8 (5.9)
 37.7 (10.6)
 50.6 (12.0)
 51.0 (12.7)
 87.5 (14.8)
 54.7 (11.5)
No. COVID-19 cases¶ 33 40 78 83 45 126 53 70 528
% Students positive 18.8 19.4 24.9 30.9 17.0 31.1 26.0 20.0 24.1

*Each dormitory floor had a shared common space and bathrooms except dorm D. †First-year student dormitories. ‡Only suite-style dormitory comprised of suites where <4 students were housed in either 4 single- or 2 double-occupancy bedrooms with the suite’s own bathroom, common area, and kitchen. §Dormitory floor-level occupancy was defined as the number of occupied rooms divided by the number of rooms per floor. ¶A laboratory-confirmed case was defined as a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigen or reverse transcription PCR test result for any on-campus student during the fall semester.

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