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Lycoming College COVID-19 Protocols

Guidance for Students Experiencing COVID-19 or Other Respiratory Illnesses e.g., influenza, common cold, etc.

With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "End of Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Declaration" that took effect on May 11, 2023, the College no longer has COVID-19 specific protocols. However, drawing upon lessons learned from the pandemic about how to reduce the spread of a respiratory illness, the College has developed guidance for students who experience COVID-19 or another respiratory illness. The guidance below is provided to promote the well-being of students and the campus community as a whole.

Students experiencing congestion, runny nose, headache, cough, fever, fatigue, and/or shortness of breath should contact Health Services at (570) 321-4052 to arrange an appointment.

Post COVID Respiratory Illness Guidance – 2024

To help prevent the spread of COVID19 and other respiratory viruses stay home and away from others if you have respiratory virus symptoms including fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache, among others.

You may return to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:

  1. Your symptoms are getting better overall.

    AND
  2. You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medications).

If you develop a fever or you start to feel worse after you have gone back to normal activities, stay home and away from others again until, for at least 24 hours, both are true: your symptoms are improving overall, and you have not had a fever.

Added precautions of physical distancing, masking, and hand hygiene for the next 5 days should be considered. Added precautions for 10 days should be considered when being around those that may be immunocompromised.

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/prevention/precautions-when-sick.html.

Diagnosis of a respiratory illness other than COVID

Students diagnosed with a respiratory illness other than COVID should follow recommendations from their medical provider as to whether they should isolate, and/or wear a mask in the presence of others.

Student Exposure to COVID 19

Students are not required to quarantine if exposed to COVID-19 or another respiratory illness.

Students Exposed to a Respiratory Disease Other than COVID

Students exposed to a respiratory disease other than COVID should follow the recommendations of their medical provider.

Classroom Remote Access

  • Short term remote access (STRA) is at the full discretion of faculty, and students should consult the individual course syllabus for the STRA policy.
  • As with all class absences, it is the student’s responsibility to make arrangements with their faculty to make up missed classroom work.