Thank you all for your cooperation and patience as we begin the process of moving faculty, staff and students back to campus as safely as possible. This is new to all of us, and we are constantly learning, adapting and evolving as things change, what sometimes feels like minute to minute. Some adaptations regarding Symptom Tracker are documented below:
Registration Emails
Registration emails were deployed June 11 to those employees who we were informed would be working on campus, whether full time, sporadic or on a rotation, during the month of June. The registration email address was provided so that you would know the email was legitimate. Symptom-tracking@hc360.io is not a phishing or spam email. The link in the email expires after eight hours, so a fresh registration email will be pushed out daily to those who have not yet registered. If you do not receive this email and know you will be on campus at any point during the month of June, please email Nicole Ralph to be added to the system.
Appropriate Responses to Survey Questions
The questions in the survey will be asking you to identify whether or not you are experiencing certain symptoms. We know that some employees may experience these symptoms regularly or sporadically due to pre-existing health conditions. When responding to these questions, please keep your baseline health condition(s) in mind. If you have asthma that comes with a persistent cough, you will respond to the question about the cough based on what would be considered a new or different experience you are having with your baseline cough. If you experience seasonal allergies, you may have a sore throat one morning due to your allergies flaring up. Again, you’ll only want to report a sore throat if it is a new and different sore throat from what is your baseline for that particular health condition. These are just a few examples. We are asking you to self-report in a truthful manner, but it is not the intent for you to report symptoms that are normal for you based on underlying health condition(s) you may have. We need your help in creating a safe working and learning environment and being vigilant with your health is critical to that. You know your body best, so please self-report symptoms truthfully, while taking these factors into consideration. The intent of this tool is not to catch you in a lie but to help you be accountable to yourself regarding your health, for the sake of your co-workers and students. If you would like to talk through your specific circumstances in more detail, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Nicole Ralph.
Travel
At the time we rolled this program out, we had only seen an older version of the application that included a question asking if you had recently traveled to a COVID-19 hotspot. That question has since been removed from the survey. The LLCC guidelines document addressed circumstances related to travel. I want to clarify that traveling, whether in-state or out-of-state does not automatically require the employee to quarantine. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis, looking at things such as location (is it a current COVID-19 hotspot), for example. We are still working on how to best report and assess, and as soon as we have this worked out, we will send further communication. In the meantime, please continue to apprise your supervisor of your travel plans who can obtain further guidance.