Faculty and Staff: Due to the nature of faculty and staff travel, faculty and staff will be required to retest upon their return to campus. Faculty and staff should plan to retest starting on January 4, 2021, or within 2-4 days of their return to campus. Faculty and staff are permitted to report to work while waiting for their test results if they are not symptomatic, or have not been in close contact with a known positive individual. Employees should continue to use caution, follow all campus safety protocols, and monitor symptoms while waiting for their test results.
Students: Due to the nature of student travel, all students who plan to utilize any on-campus facilities or are taking any in-person classes, must have a test within 2-4 days of moving in and/or attending any in-person classes.
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Students will need to test within 2-4 days of their return to campus. Faculty and staff can begin testing on January 4, 2021 or within 2-4 days of their return to campus. Faculty and staff are permitted to report to work while waiting for their test results if they are not symptomatic, or have not been in close contact with a known positive individual. Employees should continue to use caution and follow all campus safety protocols and monitor symptoms while waiting for their test results. Please note, CMU will not accept any test results from December 31, 2020 or earlier.
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For any student, faculty or staff member who needs to test, please schedule an appointment directly via primarybio.com/a/cmu, and enter your 700# in the access code field.
General community testing can schedule an appointment directly via primarybio.com/l/cdphe.updated 12.18.20
Regional test sites are available along the Front Range of Colorado. See the COVID-19 Testing website for more information. Testing is also available in Grand Junction at CMU's testing site starting January 2, 2021.
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The type of test students must complete is a PCR test and results of the test must be COVID19 or SARS-CoV-2 RNA, “not found” or “negative”. RT-LAMP assay rapid saliva tests are sufficient to move-in, provided students also received a PCR test at the same time.
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If you have expressed COVID-like symptoms you will need to be evaluated before you can participate in group activities or return to classes. Please immediately return to your residence and contact the CMU Student Wellness Center COVID hotline at 970.644.3740. Employees should isolate in their residence, contact their supervisor and their primary care provider.
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If you come in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, you will be required to implement a 14-day self-quarantine measure and may be required to use leave if you are faculty or staff. (The CDC describes “close contact" as "anyone who was within six feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 48 hours before the person began feeling sick until the time the patient was isolated.”
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If your test result comes back positive you will be contacted by Mesa County Public Health or our CMU Contact Tracing Team with instructions on what to do next. In the meantime, you should begin to isolate in your own residence, while you wait for a phone call from a Contact Tracer. View post-test instructions.
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COVID-19 testing specimen samples will be obtained through swabbing the inside of the front of the nose using both nostrils, called anterior nasal swabbing, or collected via saliva. In most cases, nurses, medical assistants, nursing students or an instructional video will show you how to submit saliva or swab the inside of each of your nostrils. If done in person, a staff member will watch to make sure you collect the specimen correctly to ensure viable samples for testing. In some medical settings based on testing site, a nurse may swab the back of your nose, also called a nasopharyngeal swab. All CMU on-site testing will use the saliva, or self-swab anterior nasal for specimen collection.
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When testing through the CMU test site, results will be returned within 24-48 hours of receipt to the lab.
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Testing at all sites will be free of charge to students, faculty and staff. In some cases, insurance may be billed, as necessary/appropriate (again, at no cost to you).
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It depends upon when you had the infection. The CDC has indicated that individuals who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus can continue to test positive but not be contagious for up to three months after symptom onset. From the CDC: “For persons previously diagnosed with symptomatic COVID-19 who remain asymptomatic after recovery, retesting is not recommended within three months after the date of symptom onset for the initial COVID-19 infection.” Therefore, CMU will not require Spring 2021 semester baseline testing for any individual from the campus community who tested positive for COVID-19 on or after October 25, 2020, and will work with the campus community to ensure retesting for reflexive or random testing does not occur within this 90-day window unless so ordered by a physician. For anyone who tested positive at a non-CMU testing site, a copy of the positive test results will need to be uploaded to the COVID Test Results eform.
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For students getting tested by their own doctor and not at one of the CMU testing partner sites, students will need to answer a few questions in MAVzone and upload an image or PDF of their test results.
To report your results to CMU to be cleared for your return to campus, complete the Third Party Private Test Results Form (i.e. non-CMU sanctioned lab test results).
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Please fill out a COVID-19 testing waiver if you do not want to get tested and want to remain off-campus for the Spring 2021 semester. By signing the waiver, you are agreeing to forego utilization of indoor or outdoor campus facilities for all campus locations as well as campus events. In effect, this choice means you will receive your instruction and services via online modality.
Faculty/Staff COVID-19 Test Waiver
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The purpose of this detection testing program is to allow CMU to understand the ongoing COVID-19 campus prevalence that will inform timely decisions for intervention, mitigation and response.
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CMU is using random sampling to select members of the CMU community for testing.
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There will be approximately 250 tests completed each week.
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If a student, faculty or staff member is selected for detection testing, they will be notified via CMU email and/or SMS text message with instructions for next steps.
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Please reach out to the Student Wellness Center or your primary care physician if you are not feeling well. If you have questions or concerns related to detection testing, please send an email to safety@coloradomesa.edu.
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