This morning, the Washington College campus community received some much-needed good news. The student who was hospitalized last week under suspicion of COVID-19 has tested negative for the highly contagious respiratory disease.
Following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the student’s traveling companions and suitemates have been in voluntary quarantine since Friday, March 13, while test results were pending.
“While the threat of COVID-19 to our community is real, this news comes as a relief to everyone who feared possible exposure on our College campus,” notes College President Kurt Landgraf. “I am so proud of this young man and his friends who did the right thing by taking responsibility for the community’s health.”
Washington College will continue to follow the measures put into place over the past two weeks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Students and faculty are engaged in remote learning, public events have been cancelled or postponed, many staff are working from home, and access to campus is restricted to those students, faculty, and staff who have permission to be on campus.
Robert Wenneson says
Is excellent to hear ‘No Covid 19’. And am glad student and contacts have been voluntary confining. But is there any explanation for the time period to get this test result? Tested on 13th, no result until the 25th. 12 days?? Of course am aware of the varying time periods for test results countrywide, and the complaints re that shortcoming, but of all the situations reported I’ve read of none that were anywhere near 12 days. First read that in the Star Democrat yesterday (“tested mar. 13, still waiting for result”), but was hoping was a typo. Any idea, anyone, why could be an astounding 12 days to get a result?