Ohio University has revamped much of its COVID-19 testing apparatus for the upcoming spring semester where more students are expected to live on-campus than in the fall.
In partnership with Vault Health, which manufactures a highly accurate saliva-based COVID-19 test, OU will operate a new asymptomatic testing program out of the Tennis Center located on South Green near Ping Recreation Center where it will be able to process 1,000 tests per day â significantly more than what was processed each day in the fall.
All students returning to campus at the end of January are also required to complete an at-home test provided by Vault Health. Testing kits will be mailed to studentsâ home address with a pre-paid overnight return form so it can be sent back accordingly. Students can expect test results up to 48 hours later.
Before pandemic, OU s top COVID-19 advisor studied AIDS epidemic in Africa athensnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from athensnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Years back, Dr. Gillian Iceâs research took her to Kenya, Africa, where she studied another pandemic that is still ongoing: HIV/AIDS.
At the time of her study of the pandemic and its impact on older people thrust into caregiver roles to help the orphans of HIV/AIDS survive, Kenya had an HIV infection rate of nearly 30 percent. She found in this study that although older people were picking up responsibility for a disappearing generation of parents, in terms of stress and how it physically presents itself, older caregivers fared better than people of the same age who were not looking after youth.