If you are notified that you have had an exposure to a COVID-19 individual, you may have a shortened quarantine period of 10 days from date of exposure. Your return-to-work instruction letter from USC Student Health will provide the date, and instructions for self-monitoring, 213-740-9355 (WELL). You may access your test results, dates, and your other private health information from the secure electronic health records portal, MySHR (usc.edu/myshr)….Continue Reading Revised Quarantine Period in California (10 Days)
Month: December 2020
Contact Tracing
When the USC Student Health contact tracing team member contacts you, they are only focused on one thing: keeping you healthy, and keeping your friends and co-workers safe from COVID-19. Team members who are health professionals will ask about your symptoms, and about others you may have had close contact with during the time you may have been infectious. Your patient privacy matters to USC Student Health. Your name will not be shared with those who are notified….Continue Reading Contact Tracing
Spring 2021 COVID-19 Screening Strategy Update
For the January 2021 start of spring term, the Keck Medicine of USC team, in partnership with campus operational teams working around the clock, have spearheaded a plan that will greatly scale our community surveillance program for COVID-19.
Testing capacity for fall 2020 was 5,000 tests per week; for spring 2021, capacity will be expanded to 100,000 per week. An expansion of 50 health care staffing positions, including additional contact tracing, will support this daily testing operation, with locations at HSC (Pappas Quad) and UPC (Pardee/Marks, Fluor/King, Jefferson Lot/Engemann Plaza, and the addition of The Lab/Figueroa)….Continue Reading Spring 2021 COVID-19 Screening Strategy Update