UC Santa Cruz is offering COVID-19 testing for students seven days a week until at least Jan. All students must test at an on-campus testing site within 48 hours of starting in-person classes or activities.Īfter completing your on-campus, post-arrival COVID test, please refer to the Testing Protocols webpage for more information about ongoing testing requirements based on your vaccination status. Students should take a COVID-19 test prior to returning to the area and schedule an on-campus testing appointment online that coincides with your return date to campus. Students who live off campus should plan to return to their residences no later than Jan. If you have not yet provided your anticipated return date, please fill out this online form. Upon your return, you will need to test at an on-campus testing site within 48 hours of your arrival. 10 with instructions to select a time to return to campus. Housing Services sent residential students an email on Jan. Residential students should plan to return to their residences no later than Jan. If your pre-arrival test is negative, please adhere to the following guidelines for residential (living on-campus) and non-residential (living off-campus) students returning to campus. Follow this list of instructions provided by the Student Health Center. Important: If your pre-arrival test is positive, please postpone your return to campus until your COVID test is negative. The protocol also includes specific testing requirements for students through winter quarter based on vaccination status and whether they live on campus or off campus. The UC Santa Cruz Winter Quarter Return Protocol advises all students to secure a negative COVID-19 test 24 hours prior to coming onto campus and get tested through the campus’s testing program within 48 hours of returning to on-campus activity. On-Campus Testing Available 7 Days a Week.I encourage you to review this update as it offers guidance on a number of important topics relating to the well-being of our campus community. Of course, my positivity is wrapped in sarcasm and cynicism, but technically I can say I am usually positive.As we plan to resume in-person instruction January 31, I write to share essential information regarding the processes and protocols for students returning to campus. What to do? How do we change our mindset? I am normally a positive individual. I should be quoting Finding Nemo where we should all “Just Keep Swimming.” Now we are transitioning to a DIY Pandemic where we diagnose ourselves based on criteria, treat ourselves (when we can) and unravel the riddle about when we can go back to work/school.Īs I write this, I think to myself, “Gosh Judy – depress people much?” and I realize that what I am saying is far from the positive reinforcement that we might all be needing right now. This ‘thing’ that just will not go away no matter how hard we try. Our personal relationship with the pandemic is nearing two years – more if you live in Asia. I am so sick of the fear!Īll we think about. It is like riding a bike through mud with under-inflated tires.Īnd then there is the fear. It is an emotional roller coaster where you don’t feel like you are strapped in properly. This pandemic is not a wobbly chair or an errant rock – it is a mind-numbing, all-encompassing wave of disappointment. Uncomfortable is sitting in a chair that wobbles, or having a small rock in your shoe. In hindsight and in the light of a New Year, that phrase doesn’t really hit that nail on the head. Is this what COVID Fatigue feels like? Is it like hope, covered in a hard chocolate shell of disappointment? Are we all hitting our collective hard shells with our tiny mallets?Ī couple of months ago, I likened the feeling I was feeling to “getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.” Imagine that Zoom meeting where the officious team member shares that, “We just need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable” and then she creates a poster and distributes it to everyone.
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