Exhibit — COVID-19 Risk Data for College Students — Klaassen v. Indiana University (N.D. Ind., 2021-07-12, 3)

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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana · No. 1:21-cv-00238-DRL-SLC · Doc. 1-8 · 2021-07-12 · Docket on CourtListener

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Table C. College/Graduate Students Comprise
A Very Low Risk Population For Serious
Covid-19 Illness
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College/Graduate Students Comprise A Very Low Risk Population For Serious Covid-19 Illness 
 
Mercifully, despite a high frequency of SARS-CoV-2 infections, as determined (primarily) by reverse 
transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR) testing, serious covid-19  disease, among college and 
graduate students is a rare event.(1-10) For example, Brown University physician epidemiologist, Andrew 
Bostom, MD, MS, compiled data from 100 major university and college covid-19 data dashboards, in 
conjunction with national and local news reports of campus-related hospitalizations, August, 2020, through the 
November 2020, Thanksgiving holiday break [11/22/20] (2-10).  As depicted in Table-1, below, among students 
on campus (primarily) during this period, from 100 U.S. universities, notwithstanding 139,000 “covid-19 positive 
tests”, there were a mere 17, typically short-term, reported covid-19 hospitalizations (2-10)—driven by a cluster 
of seven from Dayton University (3), i.e., only 0.012% of total positive tests resulting in hospitalization. Within 
this large sample, there were zero medically confirmed (4), albeit one possible, covid-19 death. These very 
reassuring data accrued in the absence of any covid-19 vaccination of the college/graduate student population. 
 
Table C. Covid-19 positive tests and related hospitalizations from 100 universities/colleges, August-November, 2020 
University 
Reported C19+, “Cases” 
(N)* 
Reported Hospitalizations 
(N)** 
Reported C19 Deaths (N)*** 
(1) U of Alabama sys 
3624 
0 
0 
(2) U of Georgia 
3637 
0 
0 
(3) U of Kentucky 
2842 
0 
0 
(4) Ohio State U 
4516 
0 
0 
(5) U of Dayton 
1477 
7 
1*** 
(6) Miami U of OH 
2330 
0 
0 
(7) Illinois State U 
1717 
0 
0 
(8) U of Iowa 
2549 
0 
0 
(9) Missouri State U 
1294 
0 
0 
(10) U of Kansas 
1249 
0 
0 
(11) Kansas State U 
1183 
0 
0 
(12) Penn State U 
4473 
0 
0 
(13) U of Wisconsin 
3340 
1 
0 
(14) U of Miami  
1005 
0 
0 
(15) U of S Carolina 
2781 
0 
0 
(16) U of Arizona 
2661 
1 
0 
(17) Notre Dame U 
1516 
0 
0 
(18) Temple University 
797 
0 
0 
(19) James Madison U 
1653 
0 
0 
(20) Texas Tech U 
2282 
0 
0 
(21) U of Texas 
1531 
0 
0 
(22) Texas Christian U 
1512 
0 
0 
(23) Texas A & M U (incl staff) 
2947 
0 
0 
(24) U of Illinois 
3786 
0 
0 
(25) Iowa State U 
1845 
0 
0 
(26) East Carolina U 
1397 
0 
0 
(27) U of N Carolina 
1273 
2  
0 
(28) N Carolina State U 
1268 
0 
0 
(29) Auburn U (incl staff) 
2031 
0 
0 
(30) Arizona State U 
2758 
0 
0 
(31) San Diego State U 
1475 
1 
0 
(32) Ball State U 
1331 
0 
0 
(33) U of N. Dakota 
1514 
0 
0 
(34) U of Cent Florida 
1916 
0 
0 
(35) U of Florida (+s since 3/18/20) 
3879 
0 
0 
(36) Oklahoma State U 
2015 
0 
0 
(37) SUNY-Oneonta 
740 
0 
0 
(38) U of Missouri 
2350 
2 
0 
(39) SUNY-Buffalo 
940 
0 
0 
(40) U of Michigan (+s since 3/8/20) 
2264 
0 
0 
(41) Michigan St (incl staff) 
2029 
0 
0 
(42) U of Nebraska (incl staff)  
1619 
0 
0 
(43) U of Tenn -Knoxville (incl staff) 
1869 
2 
0 
(44) Florida St U 
1691 
0 
0 
(45) Indiana U (incl staff) 
2412 
1 
0 
(46) U of Arkansas (incl staff) 
2032 
0 
0 
(47) Louisiana St U 
1281 
0 
0 
(48) U of Louisville (incl staff) 
1313 
0 
0 
(49) Arkansas St U (incl staff) 
873 
0 
0 
(50) Liberty U 
800 
0 
0 
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University 
Reported C19+, 
“Cases” (N)* 
Reported Hospitalizations 
(N)** 
Reported C19 Deaths (N)*** 
(51) N Arizona U 
1283 
0 
0 
(52) Florida Int U (+s since 3/12/20) 
368 
0 
0 
(53) Florida Atlantic U 
326 
0 
0 
(54) U of Houston (+s since 3/20, incl faculty) 
402 
0 
0 
(55) U N. Texas 
810 
0 
0 
(56) Texas St U (+s since 3/1/20) 
955 
0 
0 
(57) GA Tech (+s since 3/20) 
1310 
0 
0 
(58) U N. Georgia 
559 
0 
0 
(59) Northeastern U 
276 
0 
0 
(60) U Mass Amherst 
401 
0 
0 
(61) U Conn 
381 
0 
0 
(62) U Maryland  
1249 
0 
0 
(63) U Rhode Island (+s since 1/22/20) 
681 
0 
0 
(64) Boise St 
816 
0 
0 
(65) Colorado St (incl staff; +s since May) 
1351 
0 
0 
(66) U of Utah 
1639 
0 
0 
(67) Utah St 
1554 
0 
0 
(68) Marquette U 
830 
0 
0 
(69) U of Pittsburgh  
587 
0 
0 
(70) Rutgers U 
497 
0 
0 
(71) Idaho St 
448 
0 
0 
(72) Villanova U 
379 
0 
0 
(73) U of Virginia 
1069 
0 
0 
(74) Virginia CU 
403 
0 
0 
(75) U of Delaware (incl staff) 
732 
0 
0 
(76) Western Kentucky U (incl staff) 
928 
0 
0 
(77) East Tenn St 
451 
0 
0 
(78) U of Toledo 
565 
0 
0 
(79) Purdue U 
2694 
0 
0 
(80) Rutgers U 
497 
0 
0 
(81) U of Mississippi (incl staff) 
924 
0 
0 
(82) Tulane U 
1332 
0 
0 
(83) Providence Coll 
363 
0 
0 
(84) Seton Hall U 
165 
0 
0 
(85) Brigham Young U (incl faculty) 
3032 
0 
0 
(86) Boston College 
332 
0 
0 
(87) Duke U 
152 
0 
0 
(88) Weber State U 
312 
0 
0 
(89) Lehigh U  
535 
0 
0 
(90) U of New Hampshire 
357 
0 
0 
(91) St. Louis U  
431 
0 
0 
(92) Georgetown U  
145 
0 
0 
(93) George Wash U 
133 
0 
0 
(94) Vanderbilt U  
736 
0 
0 
(95) U of Penn 
633 
0 
0 
(96) U of West Virginia (Morgantown) 
874 
0 
0 
(97) Coll of Charleston 
518 
0 
0 
(98) Monmouth U (NJ) 
462 
0 
0 
(99) N Carolina A & T  
468 
0 
0 
(100) Bowling Green St U  
741 
0 
0 
Totals 
138,703 
17 
1? 
 
References 
1) * Per data accessed 11/15-22/20: testing ostensibly by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction 
amplification and detection of covid-19 viral RNA [primarily], or covid-19 nucleocapsid protein antigen detection 
by immunofluorescent assay(s).   
2) **As originally noted here: https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1302438825063591936; “Kansas college 
student hospitalized with suspected case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome”, but the Kansas college was 
unidentified. https://bit.ly/3mHD3Be 
3) Seven University of Dayton students/1477 positive tests: “According to the public health department for 
Dayton and Montgomery counties, seven University of Dayton students were hospitalized in the campus’s 
outbreak. https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/dayton/news/2020/10/06/at-least-a-dozen-ohio-college-students-
suffered-medical-emergencies-from-covid-19  
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4) ***Dayton University student Michael Lang may have had a myocarditis related to SARSCoV2, which 
precipitated a cardiac arrest https://www.kake.com/story/43106955/wrecked-our-lives-families-of-3-young-
adults-who-died-from-covid19-share-heartbreaking-stories  
5) Two of 1869 University of Tennessee-Knoxville covid-19 positive students were hospitalized 
https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/09/16/at-least-2-ut-students-hospitalized-with-covid-19/;  
6) One of the 1475 covid-19 positive students at San Diego State University (SDSU) was hospitalized “1st 
SDSU Student Among COVID-19 Surge Hospitalized as Cases Reach 440.” 
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investigations/1st-sdsu-student-among-covid-19-surge-hospitalized-as-
cases-reach-440/2402332/;   
7) One University of Wisconsin-Madison student was hospitalized out of 3340 who were covid-19 positive  
https://wkow.com/2020/09/16/first-known-uw-madison-student-hospitalized-with-covid-19/. Regarding this 
student: “‘the actual time in the hospital was very limited’ and the student has returned home to recover. The 
hospitalization was reported on September 16, and the school has not learned of any additional 
hospitalizations.” 
8) One Indiana University hospitalization out of 2412 covid-19 positive tests was reported  
https://www.idsnews.com/article/2020/09/iu-first-coronavirus-hospitalization-flu-isolations  
9) University of Arizona one hospitalization/2661 covid-19 positive “Only one UA student has been hospitalized 
with COVID-19 symptoms, although the person was treated for dehydration and released, a UA spokesperson 
said last week” https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/10/06/asu-ua-nau-decrease-
number-active-positive-covid-cases/3633764001/  
10) A CDC/MMWR report “Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus — North Carolina, August 
2020”, reported zero hospitalizations: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6939e3.htm 
Subsequently, from 10/5/20, regarding North Carolina: “UNC-Chapel Hill reported two known hospitalizations. 
Both cases involved students who were hospitalized in June and July. The cases were ‘noncritical: Campus 
Health is aware of two students who were tested at Campus Health and then treated and released from a 
nearby hospital in June and July. Both were noncritical. These are the only instances we’re aware of.’ Seven 
schools said they had no reported hospitalizations.” https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2020/10/how-many-
students-are-hospitalized-with-covid-19-nc-colleges-dont-know/   
11) U of Missouri: “The Maneater is aware of at least two students [note: out of 2350 who tested positive] who 
have recently recovered after hospitalization. To protect their privacy, those students are not named.” 
https://www.themaneater.com/stories/campus/impossible-for-the-university-to-know-mu-struggles-to-track-
student-covid-19-hospitalizations  
 
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