For students isolated in off-campus hotel rooms, it costs $30 a day to eat. Returning to on-campus from winter break resulted in a sudden omicron spike among Cal Poly students, leading to the administration moving students who tested positive to off-campus hotel rooms for isolation. To add to the list of struggles of being isolated […]
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Cal Poly spends more than $100,000 isolating COVID-positive students
Cal Poly spent more than $100,000 isolating students off-campus in January after a record-high number of students tested positive for COVID-19, according to documents obtained by Mustang News through a public records request. Cal Poly officials signed contracts with three local hotels to isolate COVID-positive students: the Lamplighter Inn, Sands Inn & Suites and Hotel […]
Good Luck: Inside Cal Poly’s on-campus isolation
The Hoof is a satire column created to find the humor in the daily life of Cal Poly students. If you’re looking for news, this is not it. If you’re looking for sports, this is kind of it, because we’re having a ball. Ha. Puns. Rebecca Caraway is a journalism junior and Mustang News opinion columnist. […]
Cal Poly is isolating COVID-positive students in off-campus hotels
Cal Poly has become so overwhelmed by on-campus students testing positive for COVID-19 that the university began isolating COVID-positive students in local San Luis Obispo hotels on Wednesday, Jan. 5. “The university engaged off-campus beds because it needed more than the 62 beds available on campus.” Cal Poly spokesperson Matt Lazier wrote to Mustang News […]
University provides peer support for students in isolation
In the midst of the country’s largest surge in COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, some Cal Poly students have found themselves on the front lines of the university’s pandemic response. At the beginning of winter quarter, Cal Poly created the position of Isolation Assistant (IA) to better address the growing number of […]
Cal Poly is isolating COVID-positive students in Cerro Vista — but officials haven’t told residents
Cal Poly is using Cerro Vista’s Romauldo building to isolate COVID-positive students and residents in quarantine who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. The university has not communicated its use of Romauldo to the 649 residents living in the other five Cerro Vista buildings. University Housing officials have also instructed residential advisors — who […]
Ten on-campus residents released from COVID-19 isolation yesterday
This story was updated Oct. 28 with additional information about students recovered from COVID-19 and students isolated and quarantined on campus Ten students living on-campus who tested positive for COVID-19 have been released from isolation since Saturday, Oct. 24, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated Monday afternoon, Oct. 26. Monday’s update includes data from […]
Eleven students test positive for COVID-19
Six students living on-campus and five students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 72 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated Monday afternoon. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing, which has performed 291 COVID-19 tests in the last 72 hours. The dashboard does not account for positive COVID-19 […]
Ten students test positive for COVID-19 in one day
Two students living on-campus and eight students living off-campus have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to Cal Poly’s coronavirus dashboard updated this afternoon. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing. Campus Health and Wellbeing has performed 203 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours — 4.9 percent of […]
More than one-third of county’s new COVID-19 cases are Cal Poly students
Thirteen more students have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated this morning. One of the students lives on-campus and 12 live off-campus. This is the second day in a row that 13 students have tested positive for COVID-19. Of the 26 students who have tested […]
More than 200 University Housing residents are quarantined-in-place
Three students living on-campus and ten students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated this afternoon. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing. The dashboard does not account for positive COVID-19 results identified at off-campus testing locations. Following potential coronavirus exposure in […]