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COVID-19 Essentials
Do not come to work/school if you have symptoms suggestive of COVID-19. Instead, stay home, test yourself and notify your supervisor/professor and Health Services.
- Face masks: A well-fitting face mask continues to be one of the simplest measures to reduce transmission. Please keep a face mask with you to use as needed.
Face Mask Required
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- Lecture Halls
- Classrooms during instruction
- Libraries
- Areas where health care may be delivered, including:
- 19 Skyline Drive: Entrance to and on the entire third floor which includes Touro Dental Health, Family Health Center and the Clinical Trials Unit
- Health Services in the Basic Sciences Building
- Simulated patient care settings, such as classes utilizing standardized patients and the dental simulation lab.
- For 10 days following confirmed infection even if isolation is complete at five days.
- For the 10 days following known SARS-CoV-2 exposure.
- Anytime SARS-CoV-2 infection is suspected.
- Anytime in campus buildings by anyone without COVID-19 Vaccination plus a booster
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COVID-19 Vaccination
COVID-19 vaccination with a booster is a requirement for students. Our partner hospitals and clinics will not permit unvaccinated students, asserting a religious exemption, on their premises for clinical education. If you cannot complete your clinical education, you cannot train in a clinical discipline. No request for a religious exemption to primary COVID-19 vaccine can be granted to students in the School of Medicine, the Touro College of Dental Medicine, the School of Health Science and Practice's speech-language pathology and physical therapy programs, or the clinical laboratory science program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
COVID-19 Confirmed Infection (Positive Test)
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- Inform Health Services of your illness/ positive test.
- It is your responsibility to notify any persons you have exposed. Exposure = During the 48 hours before symptoms, or, if asymptomatic, 48 hours before your positive test: Anyone you were with within 6 feet, for a cumulative 15 minutes over the 48 hour interval. Wearing a face mask does not exclude someone from exposure. Please also notify Health Services of exposed NYMC/TCDM persons that meet this definition; You must include the date of last exposure, last name, first name.
Your isolation
- Isolation starts on day 0 (day of symptom onset or positive test) and continues through midnight day 5 or day 10. You must send in a completed symptom log to be cleared to return to school/work.
- Monitor your symptoms. If you feel sick or have trouble breathing seek medical care immediately.
- Stay in a separate room from other household members.
- Use a separate bathroom, if possible.
- Take steps to improve ventilation at home, if possible.
- Don't share personal household items, like cups, towels, and utensils.
- Wear a well-fitting mask if you must be around other people.
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COVID-19 Exposure
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Up-to Date Vaccination or COVID-19 Recovered
Within 90 Days
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NOT Up-to-Date and NOT recovered from COVID-19 within 90 days
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- Self-monitor for symptoms for 10 days.
- If symptoms develop: Self-isolate, notify Health Services, and get tested.
- Wear a Face mask in all locations during the 10 days
- If asymptomatic it is STRONGLY ADVISED to obtain a test (antigen or PCR) no sooner than day 5 post-exposure. Only report a positive test to Health Services.
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- You may attend school/work but self-quarantine from other activities is recommended by the NYSDOH.
- NYSDOH requires testing no sooner than day 5 post-exposure. A positive test must be reported to Health Services.
- Self-monitor for symptoms for 10 days
- If symptoms develop: Self-isolate, notify Health Services, and get tested.
- Wear a face mask in all locations during the 10 days.
- A negative test post exposure may be sent to Health Services for inclusion in your medical record.
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