Lansing, MI – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released new guidance encouraging colleges and universities to require COVID-19 testing of students who live in the immediate university community, even if the students do not live on campus.
The guidance released today, on which MDHHS has consulted with colleges and universities across the state, identifies numerous strategies they can use to test broadly within their communities. These include:
- Requiring weekly testing of all undergraduate students who reside on or near the campus and who participate in social activities associated with the campus community.
- If resources are more constrained, require testing for all students in the campus community on a regular but random basis.
Whatever testing strategy is used, results should lead to specific actions such as immediate isolation of those with a positive test or symptoms and exposure to someone with a positive test, robust contact tracing of roommates, classmates and social contacts once a case is identified, quarantining close contacts of cases and reviewing and altering infection prevention and control practices and implemented mitigation strategies.
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