Health Center Provides COVID Safety Reminders; Fall Masking Guidance…

College Well being Middle Director Dr. Spyridon Marinopoulos despatched the next e mail to the campus neighborhood at present:

I hope you might be having fun with a wholesome and secure summer season break. I’m writing at present with a couple of updates and reminders relating to our present COVID-19 necessities and protocols for the Fall 2022 semester:

• Vaccination: UMD continues to require vaccination towards COVID-19 for all on-campus college, workers and college students, together with the primary booster, relying on the vaccine obtained.
  People over 50 are strongly inspired to obtain a second booster per CDC steerage.
  • For anybody who’s immunocompromised, we strongly suggest consulting along with your private doctor and following CDC steerage for immunocompromised people
    on receiving all booster doses when eligible.
  • Please word that the college will acknowledge a previous COVID-19 an infection as being up-to-date for 3 months from the date of the an infection. You possibly can attest to a previous COVID-19 an infection at return.umd.edu.
  • Medical and non secular exemptions proceed to be accessible to those that qualify.
  • Worldwide college students ought to confer with extra vaccine and booster info previous to arriving on campus from outdoors the US.

As a reminder, please add your vaccination info tomyuhc.umd.edu.

• Masks: Sporting a masks isn’t required whereas indoors at the moment with a couple of exceptions. Masking steerage for the autumn semester will likely be issued within the weeks main as much as the primary day of courses.

• Testing: College students, college and workers are strongly inspired to take a fast antigen COVID-19 check inside 24 hours earlier than returning to campus for the autumn semester. For those who check optimistic, you shouldn’t return to campus and may isolate per CDC tips. That is an effort to evaluate the extent of an infection as we put together to extend the density of our campus neighborhood; so even in case you have been on campus all summer season, we suggest this testing.

• COVID lodging: In particular circumstances, college students, college and workers might request a incapacity lodging associated to COVID-19. For brand spanking new lodging requests, college students might contact the Accessibility and Incapacity Service. Staff might contact College Human Sources relating to requests for work-related lodging.

As a reminder, this steerage is topic to alter ought to we expertise a change in COVID-19 an infection charges. We’ll proceed to maintain our neighborhood knowledgeable on updates to our well being and security insurance policies. Please go to our COVID-19 Data Web site for added info.

Be nicely and keep secure,

Spyridon S. Marinopoulos, MD, MBA, FACP
Director, College Well being Middle
Chief Medical Officer, College of Maryland
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