Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wight State University will open an on-campus clinic to make it easier for students to test for the coronavirus, school leaders said a day after reporting the first five COVID-19 cases there.
School officials are finalizing the details for the clinic and will make an announcement within the next couple of days, interim Provost Douglas Leaman said.
The university anticipated positive coronavirus cases on its campuses, so the school leaders included the clinic in its contingency plan for the fall semester, he said. They hope to test as many students as possible to contain the virus.
“We are following what we expected to happen,” he said. “Having said that, I’m very pleased that things have gone as well as they have.”
Once the clinic opens, the testing process will cover a range of possibilities. Officials will continue to encourage anyone affiliated with the university to get tested as needed.
Students who show symptoms and those who have been in contact with individuals who have tested positive will be ordered to get tested, Leaman said. There will also be surveillance testing, meaning individuals will be randomly selected to help the institution monitor how or if the virus continues to spread among students and faculty, he said.
