Colgate Together Digest

Settling back into the semester, the Task Force will meet as scheduled this week, reviewing COVID-19 data and making community health decisions based on the numbers.

This is my last message to you before your well-earned Thanksgiving break. I will make it memorable by passing along Thanksgiving and winter break protocols, drafted by the Task Force and endorsed today by the Executive Group.

Flu and various other common ailments are making their way across campus, but our dashboard is showing no active student cases of COVID-19.

Last night, Governor Hochul extended the expiration date of the HERO Act until December 15. We are, therefore, obligated to continue masking indoors and following our Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Plan.

As of today, the dashboard reflects no student cases of COVID-19. We continue to monitor the data closely, especially given our relative proximity to last week’s fall-break travel. We also know that past performance is no guarantee of future results, as they say in the small print.

I want to thank the Docs for jumping in with a guest message last week and note that the dashboard currently shows no active student cases of COVID-19.

We want to note that there is one active student case of COVID-19 according to the dashboard. We also want to dispense a lot of thanks and a bit of advice.

Good afternoon, and welcome to October. With my first message of the month, I can note one new student case of COVID-19 — the two individuals we mentioned last week have returned from quarantine.

After last week’s testing, the Health Analytics Team Dashboard is holding steady with two student cases of COVID-19.

We have just two students in isolation right now — they will be out on Oct. 1. We are counting down the days with both of them.