Health Services update for February 11, 2022

Mark Parisi, director of counseling and health services, sent the following weekly Health Services update to students today (February 11, 2022).

Hello students,

You may be aware that this week New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced the lifting of the indoor mask/vaccine mandate for businesses in New York State. This does NOT apply to The College of Saint Rose. You are still required to wear a mask when inside buildings on the Saint Rose campus. In addition, please remember to wear your masks correctly so they are effective. Here is a link to a video on proper mask wearing that the CDC has created. Thank you for your continued diligence to keep our campus and community safe.

Rates: You can always consult the COVID-19 Dashboard for the number of cases among our campus community. The dashboard is updated daily as new cases arise. This week, there were 5 positive student cases and 3 positive employee cases reported, and the total number of cases considered active is 5.

Boosters: If you are eligible, remember to sign up for one of our upcoming COVID-19 booster clinics. The upcoming clinics will be held on March 3 and April 7. As announced on January 19, students are required to have the booster by June 30 in order to register for Fall 2022 courses (unless they were already granted a medical or religious exemption). If you have questions about boosters, please review the New York State Department of Health webpage. If you’ve already been boosted and have not sent us a photo of your COVID-19 vaccination card, please email it to covidresults@strose.edu so we can add that to our records.

Surveillance testing: Look for the email invitation to sign up for our campus surveillance testing, which will be sent out weekly to students and employees (regardless of vaccination status) so we can test about 25% of our campus population each week. If you are interested in testing even when you are not selected (and do not have symptoms), please sign up here. (This link changes each week.)

If you have tested positive in the last 90 days and haven’t let us know, please email us at covidresults@strose.edu and do not plan to test again with us. And don’t forget to consult the restart website for more information on our COVID-19 procedures.

Sincerely,

Mark Parisi
Director of Counseling and Health Services