If you test positive for COVID-19 outside of the Color process, COVID-19 Coordinator Weekly Updates
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All messages below were sent out by Stephanie S. Spangler, M.D., Vice Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity.
January 11, 2023
- Current COVID-19 conditions
- Measures you can take to protect yourself
- What to know about XBB.1.5
- What to do if you test positive
December 12, 2022
- Flu and COVID-19 vaccine updates
- COVID-19 testing before, during, and after winter recess
- Reminders for safer travel and gatherings
November 18, 2022
- Safer travel and gatherings
- What to do if you feel sick
- Attending to your well-being
October 27, 2022
- Students will be required to get an updated, bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster by the start of the spring semester.
- Faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to get their updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters as soon as possible.
- Pop-up clinics on Cross Campus will provide additional booster availability in November.
- Paying attention to symptoms protects you and others.
October 14, 2022
- What to do if you have any symptoms of COVID-19
- Updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters now authorized for children ages 5 through 11
- COVID-19 boosters and flu shots offer protection through the fall and winter
- Reminders for travel
September 20, 2022
- Learn about upcoming changes to the Yale mask policy
- Get your bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster
September 6, 2022
- New bivalent COVID-19 vaccine boosters
- What are they?
- Who should get them?
- Where are they available?
August 19, 2022
- Highlights of fall semester COVID-19 guidance:
- Testing
- Isolation and Quarantine
- Masking
- Vaccination
- Updates on new resources
July 25, 2022
- Yale’s COVID-19 vaccination policy remains
- Update on vaccines
- Changes in COVID-19 testing requirements
- Upcoming transition to new PCR testing platform
Graduate and professional students should also see Your COVID-19 Testing Responsibilities for pre-arrival and gateway/arrival testing requirements.
June 21, 2022
- COVID-19 vaccines now approved for children under 5
- Changes in the Yale COVID-19 Testing Program
- Reminders to test when symptomatic and to submit positive results
- Updates to travel requirements and recommendations
May 26, 2022
- Take advantage of widely available COVID-19 testing services and kits and consult your health care provider if you test positive;
- Stay up to date on your COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters;
- Watch for symptoms and, if they develop, test and isolate;
- Keep high-quality, well-fitting masks on hand;
- Travel wisely; and
- Familiarize yourself with practices to reduce your risks of becoming infected or transmitting infection to others.
May 20, 2022
- New guidance for safer travel
- If you test positive: treatments and household prevention
- New booster recommendations
- A reminder of resources for Commencement
May 13, 2022
- Changes to Yale’s Contact Tracing Program
- Reminders about testing, treatments, vaccines, and other preventive measures
May 6, 2022
- A change in the CDC’s Community Levels in Connecticut
- Health and safety guidance for Commencement
- Summer work and study
- Vaccinations and boosters still required
- Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing optional for many
- COVID-19 Testing Program to evolve
April 29, 2022
- Antiviral treatments: who should use them and how do they get them
- Why other health and safety measures are still important