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Last updated October 22
Amidst the changes, student workers have faced challenges in adjusting to the University’s new safety regulations.
An email to Balz-Dobie residents at 4:58 p.m. Wednesday evening requested they return to their dorms by 6 p.m. to be tested for COVID-19.
For schools to reopen responsibly in the spring, representatives of the VSPN said that at the very least, large, public universities should have the same resources that smaller liberal arts schools do now, including twice weekly testing, mandatory social distancing and strictly enforced policies around residence hall guests.
While at home, I felt a certain amount of unhappiness and discontent from the absence of the social experience that I’d normally expect at the start of a semester.
The U.Va. hospital saw three new COVID-19 hospitalizations yesterday.
University President Jim Ryan described the University's reopening as "so far, so good."
Dr Reid Adams, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Chief Medical Officer Adams provided updates on the contributions of UVA Health to the community.
Virginia’s first game of the 2020 football season — scheduled Sept. 19 against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg — has been postponed. A new date has not been set yet, but both schools will work with the ACC to reschedule the game for later in the season.
Though some student organizations and community members are dissatisfied with the University's decision to hold in-person classes, some first-years are excited to experience college life.
Eight percent of the University’s roughly 1,500 student quarantine beds are occupied. This number includes students in post-travel quarantine.
Just over two weeks into the academic year, Ryan says he is “cautiously optimistic” that the University will not have to send students home mid-semester because of the University’s increased testing capacity and additional isolation and quarantine space.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced convalescent plasma as an emergency-use authorization treatment for COVID-19, but since May 5 of this year, trials on this method of treatment have already been conducted at the University.
As the school year progresses and workloads begin to pile up, students are starting to feel the toll of virtual learning, especially that of Zoom fatigue — the impediment of information processing due to an overuse of virtual conferencing technology that diminishes non-verbal communication learning
Still, packed dining halls and bustling Corner restaurants over the move-in weekend leave some upperclassmen and community members fearful of the skyrocketing COVID-19 numbers that forced JMU and UNC back online.
The dashboards from Virginia Tech, William and Mary, James Madison University, George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth university all report the percentage of positive test results in their community. The University of Virginia does not.
Two students tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday, five on Sunday and four on Monday. The Student Health and Wellness Center is only open for four hours on Saturday.
In an announcement sent to students July 16 about U.Va’s COVID-19 public health plans, the University stated that students would be able to receive one asymptomatic test every 60 days. The LetsGetChecked pre-arrival testing currently counts as one of the asymptomatic tests provided to students.
In the last several weeks, the number of student-athletes in Virginia’s testing program has grown from 282 to 568.
While isolation rooms remain empty, six percent of quarantine rooms have been occupied, a one percent increase from last week.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through asymptomatic individuals, the University plans to notify anywhere from 50 to 150 students daily that they are required to provide samples.
