Purdue warns faculty, staff, as COVID-19 cases stack up at record pace in Greater Lafayette; county reports second highest daily total - 156

Dave Bangert, Columnist, (Lafayette) Journal and Courier

Sunday, November 8, 2020 10:00 AM

LAFAYETTE – On Friday, Dr. Esteban Ramirez sent a note to the Purdue community about COVID-19.

This time, he addressed not students – already being watched for signs of coronavirus spread in dorms, fraternities and sororities and other shared living quarters – but faculty and staff, as the number of cases surged off campus.

“We are seeing real signs of COVID fatigue,” Ramirez wrote Friday afternoon. “As with the state and country as a whole, cases associated with the university are up in recent weeks, and unlike earlier in the semester, these mostly are not connected to congregate living communities, rather to cases in the Greater Lafayette community.”

That surge continued as the week ended, according to data released Saturday by the Indiana State Department of Health.

More: Lafayette hospitals ‘under extreme pressure’ with surge of COVID patients, ill frontline workers

Tippecanoe County reported another 156 cases – the second highest daily total since the pandemic arrived in Indiana. The biggest single-day count came one day earlier, with 189 cases.

Lafayette hospitals ‘under extreme pressure’ with surge of COVID patients, ill frontline workers.

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