Over the past two weeks, 11 on-campus students tested positive for COVID-19 and are now in isolation. Nine of these cases are connected, resulting from transmission during situations where individuals were not wearing masks and adhering to physical distancing protocols.<\/p>\n
In addition, one employee reported a positive COVID-19 test result last week.<\/p>\n
The Augsburg Response Team talks with each person who tests positive to identify any other individuals on campus with whom they had contact (as defined by the Minnesota Department of Health) to ensure those individuals quarantine as directed by MDH. Faculty who have in-person classes with students who test positive are also contacted, and we are pleased to find that masks and physical distancing have been consistently followed in the classrooms. For resident students, all roommates are contacted and those who had exposure to someone with the virus are quarantined.<\/p>\n
All isolation and quarantine cases are reported, as required, to the Minnesota Department of Health.<\/p>\n
With 11 cases over 14 days, Augsburg remains in the low transmission level as defined by the Minnesota Department of Health. However, given the number of students in quarantine, it is possible we will move into the moderate (1%-3%) transmission range once all the test results are received.<\/p>\n
In large part, Augsburg has already been operating under the MDH guidelines for moderate-level transmission, and we will move forward adhering to the following practices:<\/span><\/p>\n It is important that we all remain vigilant over the next two weeks\u2014<\/span>reducing activity, maintaining distance, and consistently wearing masks\u2014<\/span>to minimize further spread of the virus. Thank you!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current Status Over the past two weeks, 11 on-campus students tested positive for COVID-19 and are now in isolation. Nine of these cases are connected, resulting from transmission during situations where individuals were not wearing masks and adhering to physical distancing protocols. In addition, one employee reported a positive COVID-19 test result last week. The … Continue reading “Eleven Confirmed On-Campus Student Cases in 14-Day Period”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/outbreak-planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n