{"id":91213,"date":"2023-01-09T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=91213"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:45:55","slug":"maintaining-a-healthy-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2023\/01\/09\/maintaining-a-healthy-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining a Healthy Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_xxxmsonormal\"><strong>To: BUMC Faculty, Staff and Students<br \/>\nFrom: Karen Antman, MD, BUMC Provost and Dean, Chobanian &amp; Avedisian SOM<br \/>\nDate: Jan. 1, 2023<br \/>\nRE: Maintaining a Healthy Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><span>Happy New Year! As we return to campus, Boston continues to have high levels of\u00a0<span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"mark04mhw404r\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">COVID<\/span>-19, influenza and RSV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><b><span>Masks:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span>Massachusetts continues to require masks<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span>in all health-care locations. We also strongly recommend wearing a mask in crowded areas, including classrooms and the BU Shuttle, for the first two weeks until we evaluate the situation.<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><b><span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"mark04mhw404r\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">COVID<\/span>-19 Testing:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span>Please test before returning to campus if you are experiencing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/symptoms-testing\/symptoms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-loopstyle=\"link\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"0\">any symptoms<\/a>\u00a0or have recently been exposed to someone with\u00a0<span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"mark04mhw404r\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">COVID<\/span>-19. Depending on your travel over intersession, you may be required to test prior to returning\u00a0<i>to\u00a0<\/i>the United States. Please review the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a name=\"x_x_x_x_x_x__Int_aAbUm4cs\" data-safelink=\"true\"><\/a>CDC) requirements starting on\u00a0<b>Jan. 5<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2022\/p1228-COVID-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-loopstyle=\"link\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"1\">here<\/a>.<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><span>Boston University PCR testing resumes on\u00a0<b>Jan. 3\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span>for those with symptoms or exposures, Monday-Friday between 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Health Services Annex in the rear of 925 Commonwealth Ave.<\/span><span>\u00a0on the Charles River Campus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: BUMC Faculty, Staff and Students From: Karen Antman, MD, BUMC Provost and Dean, Chobanian &amp; Avedisian SOM Date: Jan. 1, 2023 RE: Maintaining a Healthy Campus Happy New Year! As we return to campus, Boston continues to have high levels of\u00a0COVID-19, influenza and RSV. Masks:\u00a0Massachusetts continues to require masks\u00a0in all health-care locations. We also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":79140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7158,795,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91215,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91213\/revisions\/91215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}