Changes to COVID reporting policy leave questions about testing at Grinnell

managed the recording and publication of all positive COVID-19 cases. At the beginning of the pandemic, students could view this message in a separate online portal managed by SHAW. Positive case numbers can now be viewed in the weekly campus memo released by administration. COVID tracking briefly paused during winter break due to the lack of students on campus, but it resumed again at the start of the spring 2023 semester.

By Molly Wilcoxson wilcoxso2@grinnell.edu

As the year comes to a close, Grinnell College administration continues to wrestle with the ongoing question of how to handle COVID cases, particularly as restrictions begin to lax statewide due to the end of mandatory test reporting and the approaching end of testing programs such as Test Iowa.

Since the pandemic, Student Health and Wellness (SHAW) has