The program will begin May 11, when UC San Diego starts giving self-administered tests to 5,000 students living in campus housing.
UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said Tuesday that the university is going to begin mass testing students for the novel coronavirus as a major step toward resuming on-campus courses in the fall.
If the program works, campus officials plan to test about 65,000 students, faculty and staff on a monthly basis. “We expect these efforts to help put us in the best possible position to minimize virus outbreaks and implement new interventions as needed, should we resume in-person activities this fall.”in March and April as the novel coronavirus spread. The shift has been unpopular with many students, some of whom say that in-person classes offer a much richer learning experience. Students also don’t like paying full tuition for online classes.
Students “will go to one of several designated sites on campus to pick up a clean nasal swab in a specimen collection container,” the university said in a statement. “Using a downloaded barcode-reader app on a smartphone, the participant will scan the unique barcode on the container, linking their cellphone number to the specimen and generating a time stamp.
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