Expensive Campus Neighborhood,
We stay up for welcoming you again to UC Santa Cruz within the coming days and weeks. As we method the beginning of the autumn quarter, we discover ourselves in a significantly higher place for managing COVID-19 than within the earlier two years of the pandemic. We are going to proceed with our mission of training and analysis with fewer restrictions this fall than we now have had previously. Our campus group has an especially excessive vaccination fee, and extra COVID-19 remedy choices can be found. As we provide these newest well being tips, we ask you to stay versatile as our insurance policies might have to vary. We’re assured that, as Slugs, we are going to proceed to work collectively for the well-being of our campus group. Under is what you may anticipate once you return to campus.
The Highlights
- Testing Necessities
- Masks Necessities
- Vaccination Necessities
- Vaccination Clinics
- Monkeypox (MPX) Remedy
- Campus Badge Replace
- Isolation Replace
Testing Necessities
College students who Reside in College Housing
Testing 24 hours earlier than you come to campus is required with an at-home speedy antigen take a look at. Please don’t come to campus in the event you take a look at constructive or are symptomatic. As a substitute, please contact your Housing Coordinator to reschedule your move-in date and observe these directions from Pupil Well being Companies.
After you arrive, you will have to take a PCR take a look at inside every week. It’s tremendous straightforward, and no appointment is important! You’ll be given a PCR take a look at equipment once you obtain your keys throughout move-in.
College students who Reside Off Campus
Testing 24 hours earlier than you come to campus is required with an at-home speedy antigen take a look at. Please don’t come to campus in the event you take a look at constructive. Please observe these directions from Pupil Well being Companies.
After you arrive, additionally, you will be required to take a PCR take a look at inside every week. While you arrive on campus, please decide up a PCR take a look at equipment. Kits might be out there after Sept. 17 on the Faculty Housing Workplaces, Bay Tree Campus Retailer, McHenry Library, or the Science and Engineering Library.
School and Workers
School and employees are usually not required to check. Nevertheless, you probably have attended a crowded occasion and not using a masks or have had potential publicity, testing is strongly really helpful earlier than you come to campus to assist the well being of our campus group. After Sept. 17, you may decide up a free PCR take a look at equipment on the Bay Tree Campus Retailer, McHenry Library, or the Science and Engineering Library, or examine together with your medical supplier for various testing assets. It’s also possible to signal as much as obtain eight free at-home assessments by USPS to a non-campus deal with delivered proper to your door.
Ongoing Testing
Ongoing (surveillance) testing shouldn’t be at present required for college kids, school, or employees (except you’re a college healthcare employee). Nevertheless, free asymptomatic testing remains to be out there for the campus on the following places. Testing will assist to guard your well being and your fellow Slugs.
Masks Necessities
Masks will nonetheless be required in scientific settings, akin to Pupil Well being Companies and indoor COVID-19 testing websites. Carrying masks in different indoor areas, akin to school rooms, eating services, and on Campus Transit automobiles / METRO buses, is strongly really helpful. The college continues to supply free masks to the campus group. They are often picked up on the following places.
Vaccination Necessities
The UC Vaccination Coverage for COVID-19 stays in impact. If you’re new to campus, it’s essential to enter your vaccination dates and add your COVID-19 vaccination card. If you don’t add proof of vaccination or present proof of submitting a request for an exception, you’ll not be in compliance with the Coverage . All college students (each undergraduate and graduate) are required to stick to the UC Vaccination Coverage. College students could also be referred to pupil conduct (or to Workers HR as an worker) for non-compliance with college coverage.
Vaccination Clinics
Pupil Well being Companies will maintain vaccination clinics for COVID and flu for college kids on the Stevenson Occasion Heart from 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Sept. 22 and 23. Appointments might be out there two weeks earlier than these dates.
Threat Companies is partnering with Kaiser to supply flu shot clinics for workers on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. on the Bay Tree Convention Heart.
Monkeypox (MPX) Remedy
Pupil Well being Companies has partnered with native and state public well being departments to get entry to the vaccine (JYNNEOS) and antiviral (Tecovirimat (TPOXX) remedies in opposition to MPX (previously known as monkeypox) for eligible college students. Nevertheless, we now have an especially restricted vaccine provide right now. We’re prioritizing college students who’re shut contacts with a identified MPX case or those that are thought of excessive threat.
College students who meet the next standards could also be eligible for the JYNNEOS vaccine:
- Presumed contacts who know {that a} sexual companion previously 14 days was recognized with monkeypox.
- People in a Tier I or Tier II high-risk precedence group as outlined by the California Division of Public Well being.
- Recognized shut contacts who’re recognized by public well being by way of case investigation, contact tracing, and threat publicity assessments.
College students with questions or considerations about their MPX threat, signs , publicity, or testing, are suggested to contact Pupil Well being Companies by way of Well being e-Messenger: click on Messages > New Message > Monkeypox Illness Questions. Or Well being e-Messenger – questions on eligibility for the Monkeypox vaccine: click on Messages > New Message > Monkeypox Vaccine Eligibility Questionnaire or name the Nurse Recommendation Line: (831) 459-2591.
Campus Badge Replace
The campus COVID-19 pupil badging system is not in use. The campus notification system stays in operation. When college students take a look at constructive utilizing a campus testing facility, notifications might be despatched to the scholar’s instructors. All college students who take a look at constructive (both on campus or off) have been requested to inform all of their shut contacts, together with their instructors.
Isolation Replace
COVID-19
Most of our campus group is up-to-date on their vaccinations, and there are extra therapeutics out there now to cut back the severity of COVID. College students dwelling in college housing who take a look at constructive for COVID-19 might want to isolate in place. For any roommates with underlying medical situations, we now have non permanent lodging out there for the interval their roommate is in isolation.
Monkeypox (MPX)
College students who take a look at constructive for monkeypox (MPX) might not isolate themselves of their on-campus residence. The isolation workforce will additional instruct you about isolation at applicable non permanent lodging.
Thanks for working with us to maintain our campus group wholesome this fall.
