Supervisors will expect all employees to follow the self-care protocol, wear masks, observe social distancing, and contribute to keeping the office environment clean. Supervisors may consider rearranging a work location, scheduling meetings using conference calls or one of the online meeting platforms and modifying work practices to reduce the likelihood of personal interaction among employees.
Quarantine is ordered when someone has been in close contact with an infected person. A close contact is defined as someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to test specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated.
Members of the Winthrop community must get into the habit of always having a mask or face covering close at hand anytime they are away from their office/residence hall room or simply navigating around campus. A single disposable mask may be obtained from …. as a last resort if someone needs a mask while they are on campus or in a campus building.