In Illinois State University s latest weekly COVID-19 update, students were reminded about available testing for the remainder of the fall semester. Students living in on-campus housing were also told that entry testing will be required upon arrival to campus for the spring semester.
COVID-19 testing for the remainder of the fall term
ISU strongly urges students to get tested before returning home for winter break, reminding them to limit activity while on campus as much as possible. On average, on-campus test results take three to five days to be received.
Asymptomatic testing at the fire station at 602 N. Adelaide St. and in the parking lot between Watterson Towers and Stevenson Hall will remain open at normal hours through Dec. 4.
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Illinois State University will provide its employees with free on-campus COVID-19 testing for the first time, starting next month.
ISU has offered free testing to students since the summer, costing millions of dollars. But faculty and staff have had to go elsewhere, using community options like the testing site at the Interstate Center in Bloomington.
Starting Jan. 11, employees can participate in free on-campus COVID testing, too. It will be available at a temporary building in the parking lot between Watterson Towers and Stevenson Hall, and at the former fire station at 604 N. Adelaide St., Normal.
Employees working remotely who wish to test are asked to postpone their participation in the testing process until after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
PEORIA â In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called âthe beginning of the endâ of the pandemic.
The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing the disease.
PEORIA â In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called âthe beginning of the endâ of the pandemic.
The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing the disease.