Updates will be shared each Thursday from the Health and Safety Task Force at Guilford as a way of ensuring regular and trusted communication on important topics related to the operations of the college related to COVID-19.
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In this update, you can expect:
- Data from campus PCR tests
- Vaccine mandate quickly approaching
- Regular and relevant data to understand the health of our community
- Information on the next testing and vaccination opportunities on and off campus
- Information on important phasing and planning related to activities across campus
- Answers to frequently asked questions
Data from Campus PCR Tests
As Interim President Jim Hood '79 reported, our data from the past three PCR clinics showed us that it was safe to transition back to Phase 4. Here are the results:
- Friday, October 1: 3 positive from 354 tests (.85% positivity rate)
- Monday, October 4: 6 positive from 536 tests (1.12%)
- Tuesday, October 5: 6 positive from 622 tests (.96%)
These results are much more in line with our previous clinic data of around 1% positivity rates.
Students, faculty, and staff who have tested positive for the virus are isolating themselves at home or in their rooms. Although some are experiencing symptoms, no one has had any serious illness thus far. Positive tests have occurred in both vaccinated and unvaccinated members of our community.
Vaccine Mandate Quickly Approaching
As we move forward together as a community toward the deadline of Oct. 15 for our vaccination mandate to take full effect, we continue to share important information for our community.
For those community members who have not started or completed their COVID vaccine shots series, we have one more on-campus vaccination clinic on Friday, Oct. 15, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Founders East Gallery. There is no cost for the vaccine and all three vaccines will be available at the clinic. (The one shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine, as well as the two-shot series Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, will be available.)
We appreciate all the efforts to continue to upload vaccination documentation as our community moves forward toward a safer, healthier campus. The links below should provide you a way to provide this information if you haven’t already done so.
STUDENTS
FACULTY AND STAFF
Thank you to everyone for responding so rapidly and with such great care in the last few days. We appreciate your flexibility and your resilience as we continue to move forward together.
Sincerely,
The Guilford College Health and Safety Task Force
- Kim Berry and Steve Mencarini, co-chairs
- Savannah Henry
- Suzanne Bartels
- Kim-Anne Kleimeier
- Reacie Daniel
- Wilmisha May
- Erickia Elbert Ryann Fowler
- Janet Gould
- Michele Malotky
- Susan Smith
- Jermaine Thomas