The University Of Utah: Spring 2022 COVID Update

Press release from The University of Utah:

Taylor Randall, Mike Good, Martell Teasley

March 9, 2022

As we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, we are optimistic about the state of COVID-19 on our campus and in the community around us. We are in a very different place than we were just two months ago.

Infections and hospitalizations have declined since their peak in January; the vast majority of our campus community has been vaccinated and received booster shots; and new therapies, including anti-viral medications, are now more readily available. With these changing circumstances, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently updated its mask guidance, and we correspondingly now align our University of Utah health and safety guidelines:

community level Self-test kiosks

While many of us will be able to relax the health and safety precautions we have been taking since the start of the global health crisis, we know many in our community will not be able to have the same freedoms. The elderly, people who are immunocompromised, and those with disabilities are still at high risk for serious COVID-19 illness. We encourage all members of our community to keep them in mind as we begin to return to a more normal state of operations on the University of Utah campus.

Taylor Randall
President

Mike Good
Senior Vice President for Health Sciences

Martell Teasley
Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

This press release was produced by The University of Utah. The views expressed here are the author’s own.