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USD offers additional COVID-19 testing

October 20, 2020April 28, 2021 Miles Amende0Tagged asymptomatic, campus, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, Department of Health, Sanford Vermillion Medical Center, Sentinel Testing, Slagle Hall, Tim Ridgway

USD’s Sentinel Testing program is now allowing up to 100 volunteers per week to participate in COVID-19 testing in addition to randomly selected students, faculty and staff. The change to the program came in response to numerous requests for volunteer testing, according to an email sent to the student body. Anyone who is asymptomatic, has […]

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USD implements random COVID-19 tests for asymptomatic campus population

October 13, 2020December 13, 2021 Miles Amende0Tagged asymptomatic, COVID-19, COVID-19 Dashboard, covid-19 task force, COVID-19 testing, Department of Health, Featured, isolation, miitigation, pandemic, Sanford Health, Sanford Vermillion Medical Center, social distancing, task force, Trending

To assess whether it needs to implement further safety measures on campus, USD has begun weekly COVID-19 surveillance testing of asymptomatic students and staff. Kevin O’Kelley, member of USD’s COVID-19 task force, said the testing of asymptomatic students and staff is one of three COVID-19 testing programs on campus. The second is the testing of […]

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