PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
FIRST LADY HAS MILD SYMPTOMS; PRESIDENT FEELING BETTER AT HOSPITAL AFTER RECEIVING DRUG THERAPY TREATMENTS
Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York
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Vol. 67 Issue 4
FIRST CCC SALIVA TEST RESULTS:
CAYUGABRIEFS ON CAMPUS TESTING CONTINUES; WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
NEGATIVE
If you have been identified as a member of CCC’s on-campus population you will receive an email from the college with instructions and a testing date and time. College administrators want to remind the on-campus population it is still important to note that in addition to surveillance testing, all employees and students must continue wearing face masks, social distancing, and following all health and safety protocols. • At least two days before your test date, you must create a COVID-19 Surveillance Account and register online at http://register.suny-covid. com. This is a SUNY-required step that identifies who each saliva sample is collected from. • During this process, you will be asked for your “Institution ID.” Enter your C number in this location. • In the “Address Information” section, you will be asked for your “permanent address” and your “local address.” Enter your home address at both locations. • As part of this registration, you will be asked for your health insurance information. The College will be billed for pooled testing. Your health insurance information will only be used if your saliva sample subsequently requires individual testing. If your insurance does not fully cover individual testing, the College will cover the expense. • At the end of your registration, you will reach a screen asking if you have a test kit. This is as far as you can go before your scheduled test appointment. A photo of the screen is below. Your progress in the registration will save automatically.
STAFF REPORTS
PHOTO BY JENNA FIELDS
BEFORE YOU GO TO YOUR TEST:
CAPTURING THE BEAUTY OF AUTUMN Telcom student and CAYUGA BYTES host, Jenna Fields, took a moment on the Auburn Campus last week to admire how Autumn has turned the trees in the grassy knoll in front of the college entrance into a spectacular display of reds and oranges. If you have captured a moment in time, The Cayuga Collegian staff would love you to share it with them. Just email your jpeg, name, hometown, major and year in school to the newspaper at cayugacollegian@gmail.com.
CCC HOSTS FIRST VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES FAIR ON ZOOM By Jenna Fields, Co-editor
Taking classes in the Fall 2020 semester with many of those courses taught on-line may not be ideal for many. However, keeping your distance while getting involved and participating in CCC clubs and activities may not be as difficult as you might think. There is still a whole list of clubs students may join during this time. Last week, Director of Student
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CAYUGACOLLEGIAN@GMAIL.COM It is more important than ever for the campus community to reach out and keep in touch. For some, contact with others in any way is vital. Please share your news with us. WE WANT TO TELL YOUR STORY! We need to document how we’re handling this crisis for future generations. More importantly, we need to provide the clue which keeps us together when staying safe keeps us far apart.
WE WANT YOU! GET INVOLVED! WE TAPE MOST WEDNESDAYS IN T109 @ 3:30 PM, AUBURN
After two days of COVID-19 surveillance testing at Cayuga Community College’s Fulton and Auburn campuses, the Dean for College Advancement, Cathy Dotterer, and Public and Media Relations Associate, Andrew Poole announced in an email to the campus community that SUNY Upstate returned results from the COVID-19 surveillance testing conducted at the Fulton Campus on Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday, October 1 at the Auburn Campus resulted in all pooled samples from Cayuga employees and students tested negative. “Thank you for your continued commitment to our health and safety measures, and please remember to monitor your email,” reminded Dotterer. “This week we will be testing Tuesday (Fulton) and Wednesday (Auburn),” said Poole. “For those of you who completed testing this week, please monitor your email for your next scheduled testing date.” Before attending your designated test time, you must bring your college photo identification (I.D.) and your smartphone to the testing site. Testing will not be conducted if you do not have both of these items.
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR TESTING:
CCC Anime Club is looking for more members for their virtual meetings this semester. For more information about how to participate contact the faculty advisor, Gregory Sevik.
members of The Art Club might be able to accomplish this semester. This club allows students to participate in Art and Design projects and experiences. Johnson says usually this club meets weekly and Activities Norman Lee hosted the college’s would create Art together, but this year she first ‘virtual’ Activities Fair to help publisays The Art Club will meet virtually and cize many of the college club still operating Johnson says it may be fun for them to virduring the pandemic. Lee said a recording tually visit art museums like the Lourve in of the Zoom session will be made available Paris. For more information about The Art to students on the college’s website. Club, contact Melissa Johnson at melissa. Art Professor Melissa Johnson began johnson@cayuga-cc.edu. the virtual session with her hopes about If you like Japanese Art, then The Anime Club might be perfect for you! Organizers of the club say they usually meet weekly and watch anime and discuss it later on. They say they still plan to meet weekly by just shifting their meetings to on-line. The student organizers emphasize EVERYONE is welcome to participate. Students will be able to vote and then all will decide what the club members would like to watch together. The Anime Club has a Facebook page which is CCC Anime Club. They say they are also working on Discord chat for the future. You can contact the club’s Art Professor Melissa Johnson in front of her work “The faculty advisor, Greg Sevick. Day I saw 1,000 Robins.” Johnson encourages students to participate virtually in The Art Club this semester. CONTINUED PAGE 3
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• You must not eat or drink anything, including chewing gum, mints or lozenges, for 30 minutes prior to testing. • You must abstain from smoking, vaping or using smokeless tobacco products for 30 minutes prior to testing. • Do not brush your teeth or use mouthwash less than three (3) hours prior to testing.
HERE IS HOW POOLED TESTING WORKS: “The State University of New York has been approved by the New York State Department of Health to undertake pooled surveillance testing for Covid-19 - an innovative method where numerous samples can be run as part of one test. SUNY’s pooled testing approach was developed and validated by SUNY Upstate Medical University’s laboratory and Quadrant Biosciences, and will use saliva samples, pooled in batches as small as 10 and as large as 25 samples. The pooled testing allows for about 10-25 people to be screened in one test. The testing can be done using saliva rather than by swabs that are inserted in a patients’ nose. Individuals administer the tests themselves, swabbing their mouths for 10 or 15 seconds each, and provide the saliva samples to medical personnel. Their samples are combined into one, which is tested for coronavirus. A negative test means that all 10-25 people in the group are presumed at the time to be coronavirus-free. A positive test for the pool would mean every person in that group would need to be individually tested by a PCR test.” —EXCERPT FROM A POST ON UPSTATE.EDU
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