I Am One of the Students Who Got a False Positive at Rice University

Coronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people's lives. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with An Luu, a 21-year-old senior at Rice University in Houston, who got a false positive due to a COVID-19 test glitch earlier this month. Luu was one of many Rice students whose positive (later discovered to be false positive) test results caused the university to move classes online. Ninety-five percent of the student population of Rice is vaccinated, including Luu. Slate reached out to Rice University's Crisis Management Team for comment on Luu's experience.