Universities with Full Vaccinated People Can Return to In-Person Learning

IBL News | New York

The CDC — the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — updated this week its COVID-19 guidance and announced that universities and colleges with fully vaccinated students, faculty, and staff can return to in-person learning, without requiring masks and social distancing.

For institutions of higher education where the campus population is not fully vaccinated, the CDC recommended a number of strategies for slowing the spread of COVID-19:

• Offering and promoting vaccination;
• Consistent and correct use of masks;
• Physical distancing;
• Handwashing and respiratory etiquette;
• Contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine;
• COVID-19 testing;
• Maintaining healthy environments (increased ventilation and cleaning); and
• Maintaining healthy operations (communications, supportive workplace policies, and health equity).

General public health considerations, such as encouraging hand washing, cleaning/disinfection, respiratory etiquette (covering coughs and sneezes), symptom screening, and contact tracing, still apply.