Volume 28, Number 7—July 2022
Research
Effect of Returning University Students on COVID-19 Infections in England, 2020
David Leeman
, Joe Flannagan, Dimple Chudasama, Kyle Dack, Charlotte Anderson, Gavin Dabrera, and Theresa Lamagni
, Joe Flannagan, Dimple Chudasama, Kyle Dack, Charlotte Anderson, Gavin Dabrera, and Theresa Lamagni
Table 1
Characteristics of COVID-19 case-patients, by university classification, England, September 1–December 31, 2020*
| Characteristic | No. (%) students |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attending university, n = 39,032† | Residing in student accommodation, n = 19,901‡ | Total student case-patients, n = 53,430§ | Total case-patients, n = 1,999,180¶ | |
| Sex | ||||
| F | 22,517 (57.7) | 11,109 (55.8) | 30,526 (57.1) | 1,063,624 (53.2) |
| M | 15,833 (40.6) | 8,555 (43.0) | 22,042 (41.3) | 918,902 (46.0) |
| Unknown |
682 (1.7) |
237 (1.2) |
862 (1.6) |
16,654 (0.8) |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Asian/Asian British | 6,479 (16.6) | 1,847 (9.3) | 7,775 (14.6) | 285,562 (14.3) |
| Black/Black British | 2,060 (5.3) | 758 (3.8) | 2,566 (4.8) | 78,529 (3.9) |
| Mixed | 1,519 (3.9) | 800 (4.0) | 2,085 (3.9) | 45,762 (2.3) |
| Other | 991 (2.5) | 329 (1.7) | 1,207 (2.3) | 37,166 (1.9) |
| Unknown | 1,744 (4.5) | 1,357 (6.8) | 2,790 (5.2) | 75,857 (3.8) |
| White |
26,239 (67.2) |
14,810 (74.4) |
37,007 (69.3) |
1,476,304 (73.8) |
| Region | ||||
| East Midlands | 4,487 (11.5) | 3,884 (19.5) | 7,292 (13.6) | 166,352 (8.3) |
| East of England | 3,160 (8.1) | 1,184 (5.9) | 3,854 (7.2) | 199,341 (10.0) |
| London | 7,136 (18.3) | 1,419 (7.1) | 8,056 (15.1) | 378,483 (18.9) |
| North East | 1,843 (4.7) | 1,808 (9.1) | 3,411 (6.4) | 109,891 (5.5) |
| North West | 4,211 (10.8) | 2,395 (12.0) | 6,265 (11.7) | 326,296 (16.3) |
| South East | 5,694 (14.6) | 1,788 (9.0) | 6,794 (12.7) | 261,810 (13.1) |
| South West | 4,394 (11.3) | 2,801 (14.1) | 6,194 (11.6) | 107,119 (5.4) |
| West Midlands | 3,836 (9.8) | 1,535 (7.7) | 4,833 (9.0) | 208,755 (10.4) |
| Yorkshire and Humber | 3,806 (9.8) | 3,067 (15.4) | 6,251 (11.7) | 224,888 (11.2) |
| Unknown |
465 (1.2) |
20 (0.1) |
480 (0.9) |
16,245 (0.8) |
| Accommodation type | ||||
| Student accommodation | 5,503 (14.1) | 19,901 (100) | 19,901 (37.2) | 19,901 (1.0) |
| Detached house | 6,446 (16.5) | 6,446 (12.1) | 341,391 (17.1) | |
| Semidetached house | 7,142 (18.3) | 0 | 7,142 (13.4) | 552,024 (27.6) |
| Terraced house | 9,347 (23.9) | 0 | 9,347 (17.5) | 589,178 (29.5) |
| Flat | 4,193 (10.7) | 0 | 4,193 (7.8) | 246,493 (12.3) |
| HMO | 1,617 (4.1) | 0 | 1,617 (3.0) | 9,838 (0.5) |
| Property shell | 70 (1.8) | 0 | 700 (1.3) | 18,554 (0.9) |
| Other |
4,08 (10.5) |
0 |
4,084 (7.6) |
221,801 (11.1) |
| Deaths# | 15 0 | 14 (0.1) | 28 (0.1) | 53,648 (2.7) |
| Cases in outbreak | 17,553 (45.0) | 14,375 (72.2) | 27,90 (52.2) | 964,902 (48.3) |
*HMO, houses of multiple occupancy. †Median age 20 y. ‡Median age 19 y. §Median age 20 y. Because data for case-patients can appear in both the attending university and student accommodation columns, the total is less than the sum of these 2 columns. ¶Median age 37 y. #Deaths recorded within 28 d of first positive test result.
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