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SUNY Fredonia to have students self-administer COVID tests from home

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Staff Writer  If you’re a student at Fredonia, you may have heard that new COVID testing protocols will be employed in the upcoming weeks.  Students will now self-administer weekly COVID tests from their homes or dorm rooms.  When students left their pool testing session last week, they were......
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[Column] This semester in COVID

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor To say we’ve made it through this semester gracefully would be a false statement.  COVID-19 made its presence known on our campus, but we’ve managed to stick it out.  As we head into our final week of in-person classes, looking back on how we got here......
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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  This week in COVID, we have had a recent increase in our total number of positive cases.  According to Fredonia’s COVID-19 Dashboard, from Monday, Oct. 26, to Friday, Oct. 30, there were a total of 1,345 campus-administered tests.  Out of those tests, there were 11 positive......
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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  We’ve made it through our ninth week of classes and Fredonia has kept up the diligent work in preventing the spread of COVID-19. In the past month, Fredonia was required to increase surveillance testing per SUNY guidance on Sept. 4. With this, pool testing went from every other......
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What’s pool testing really like?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSARAH HUGHSTON Social Media Manager On Tuesday, Sept. 22 I got the dreaded email; I was selected for pool testing. The email was fairly straightforward: watch an informational video, sign up through the SUNY COVID Test website and show up on time. While anxiety played out every bad scenario in......

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