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MCC Daily Tribune

COVID-19 Case Update, Faculty Encouraged to Test This Week

Located in the Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130), MCC’s Testing Center will be open 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. today, May 9 and 9:00 to 3:00 p.m. tomorrow, May 10. No appointment is necessary. MCC uses COVID-19 antigen rapid tests—a simple and more comfortable nasal test.

This Week’s Surveillance Testing Group: Faculty
COVID-19 testing helps MCC quickly respond to potential outbreaks of COVID-19. Surveillance testing of specific groups of students and employees is an important part of our spring health and safety plan. Faculty are invited and encouraged to participate in COVID-19 testing this week as follows:

  • Today, May 9: Faculty who teach at Applied Technologies Center and the Brighton Campus
  • Tomorrow, May 10: Faculty who teach at the Downtown Campus

Last Week’s Testing Results:

  • 3 positive cases were identified among students, faculty and staff who participated in MCC-administered testing during the week of May 2.
  • 2 students are isolating off campus.
  • No student is isolating on campus.
  • No students are in quarantine and precautionary quarantine.
  • MCC 7-Day Rolling Average On-campus Positivity Rate
    • Students: 2.27%
    • Employees: 1.89%
    • Overall average on-campus positivity rate since onset of pooled testing: 0.32%
  • Monroe County 7-day average positivity rate: 14.4%

Verified Employee COVID Isolation and Quarantine Data as of May 8:*

  • Employees reporting a verified county-issued COVID isolation order: 5
  • Employees remaining under a verified COVID isolation order: 2
  • Employees who have completed a mandatory COVID isolation order and who have been released from said order with a 5-day masking order requirement: 3
  • Employees subject to a county quarantine or pre-quarantine order: 0

Are weekly case updates useful to you? If we moved from publishing weekly MCC Daily Tribune updates to providing information upon request, would that be acceptable to you or do you prefer the continuation of weekly update articles? Please let us know. Call Rosanna Yule at x3024 or send an email to covid19response@monroecc.edu. Thank you for your feedback.

* The above employee data is current and verified through information provided to MCC by the New York State Department of Health, Monroe County Department of Health, MCC Human Resources Department, and the employees’ county of residence where applicable (if outside of Monroe County). The data shown in this section of this report may not be reflected in the data obtained through the SUNY COVID-19 Tracker web portal based upon the date and time of the notification to SUNY by the New York State Department of Health Contact Tracing division and the scheduling of dashboard updates by SUNY.

Rosanna Yule
Community Relations
05/09/2022