California issued a limited stay-at-home order mandating that all non-essential work, movement and gatherings cease between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. for all counties in the widespread, purple tier – including San Luis Obispo County. People may still go to the grocery store, walk their dog or pick up takeout from a […]
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Recreation Center outdoor spaces open for workouts, indoor spaces set up for a COVID care site
More facilities have opened for student use at the Recreation Center this quarter. However, the Recreation Center continues to be prepared for use as an alternate care site for COVID- 19 patients. When COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders began in the Spring, San Luis Obispo County reached out to Cal Poly to use the Recreation Center as […]
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With the library closed, students search for study spots
Halloween is over, but finals week is still creeping up for Cal Poly students. During past in-person quarters that would typically mean the library, coffee shops and dorms would be filled with students trying to get some last minute studying in. However, COVID-19 has forced students to find other places to study.
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County moves to purple tier, restaurants to move service outdoors
As of Monday, Nov. 16, San Luis Obispo County moved from the red tier to the purple tier in regards to the California blueprint for reopening during the pandemic. The purple tier, also known as the “widespread” tier or “Tier 1,” means that the restaurants, movie theaters, museums, places of worship and fitness centers that […]
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What to expect from COVID-19 testing Winter quarter
In a campus-wide email Nov. 15, Campus Health and Wellbeing shared the updated Winter quarter testing requirements for 2021, including who is required to participate in testing requirements, testing that needs to be completed before returning to San Luis Obispo, how to sign up for testing on campus and information about continuing the daily health […]
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Freshmen plans for Winter quarter: Choosing to live on campus or stay at home
Students who are living on campus are required to move out of housing by Nov. 21, according to the Cal Poly Housing website. This means that for students living on campus, they will have to move out the week before finals week, whereas last year students would normally stay on-campus through finals.
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With no open isolation beds, Cal Poly isolates some students at downtown hotel
Following a spike in COVID-19 cases in University Housing, Cal Poly began isolating students with the coronavirus off-campus late last week, according to University Spokesperson Matt Lazier. Cal Poly moved 20 students to isolate off-campus last week, but Lazier said that the university cannot confirm where students are isolating due to “privacy concerns.” Some Cal […]
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Cal Poly advises students to get tested and leave early for Thanksgiving break
Cal Poly recommends students to leave early for winter break if they have no commitments in San Luis Obispo, according to a campus-wide email. The email explained that on-campus students can go through the early checkout process and moving bins will be placed throughout residence halls if needed to move out. Cal Poly also recommends […]
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About one-quarter of Cal Poly on-campus students quarantined, County approaching “widespread” tier
About a quarter of the students currently living on campus are quarantined (947 of the nearly 4,500), up 509 students from last week. This week, 71 on-campus and 79 off-campus students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard, while last week 38 on-campus and 43 off-campus students tested positive from Cal Poly’s […]
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University adopts new COVID-19 testing methods for winter quarter
Cal Poly is adopting new COVID-19 testing methods that will help increase testing for winter quarter amid a spike in virus infections, President Jeffrey Armstrong announced Tuesday, Nov. 10.  Armstrong wrote in a campus-wide email that on-campus experts created a SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Lab, which will take saliva samples rather than the “more invasive” nasal […]
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Most active COVID-19 cases in county since pandemic began, 778 students quarantined-in-place
San Luis Obispo County reported 474 active COVID-19 cases on Monday, Nov. 9 — the most active cases in the county since the pandemic began. This beats the previous record of 465 active COVID-19 cases reported on Aug. 26, according to County Public Health.Â