Wellness Center

What is “close contact”? What happens if I have close contact with someone?

The CDC defines a “contact” of someone who tests positive for COVID-19 as someone who was in the presence of an infectious individual for 15 minutes or more at a distance of less than six feet. Classroom seating has been restructured on our campus so that the classroom setting will not confer any contacts. In a similar vein, the college requires all in-person interactions between students and faculty or staff to follow similar guidelines, so that a positive case among the student body does not imply any contacts among the faculty and staff requiring quarantine.

If for any reason your interactions with students must last for more than 15 minutes at a distance closer than six feet, or if your interactions with students require physical contact, you are required to register those interactions with the Virus Task Force by emailing mschneider@ursinus.edu and Carol McMillin at cmcmillin@ursinus.edu. This will help prevent any erroneous identification of contacts