00:09:46 kristi steinmann: Just a reminder, we are recording this session and everyone is muted. Please use the chat to ask questions, or wait to unmute and ask questions when the presenters are ready. Thanks! 00:17:43 Carrie Anne Platt: Question re: mass testing and testing capacity - What is the typical timeline of notification (after testing)? 00:19:25 Kim: Why aren't faculty and staff being tested now so that any positive cases have time to quarantine and be back before classes begin on the 24th? 00:20:08 christopher.colbert@ndsu.edu: Can we use the other Fargo sites? Can we go on other dates besides those that were distributed/ 00:20:12 Laura Oster-Aaland: Carrie Anne -- Typically results are back between 2 and 5 days. The state is using a new system to increase that capacity so we hope it will be closer to the 2 day time frame. 00:21:16 Carrie Anne Platt: Thank you, Laura! 00:21:17 Laura Oster-Aaland: Kim: It is not necessary to quarantine after taking a test IF one is not symptomatic at the time of testing. The dates for the mass testing were not set by NDSU. 00:21:39 Laura Oster-Aaland: Christopher: Yes, you may use any of the Fargo sites 00:22:27 Kim: Yep I was referring to potential positive cases. Thank you for clarification. 00:22:30 Phil McClean: Who is eligible to be tested at Student Health Service? 00:22:41 christopher.colbert@ndsu.edu: Do we need to go on specific dates? 00:22:52 Shannon Ueker: do results of the test show if we've already had COVID? 00:23:01 Carrie Anne Platt: Some faculty/staff may be in a difficult position re: testing and childcare. One of the exclusion criteria at the NDSU daycare, for example, is having been tested for COVID-19. That may need to be addressed if there is a conflict between being tested and having childcare. 00:23:05 Laura Oster-Aaland: Phil -- Current students are eligible to test at Student Health. 00:23:19 Laura Oster-Aaland: Employees should use the mass testing dates or one of the local health care providers/clinics. 00:23:54 Laura Oster-Aaland: Shannon -- The results will not show if you've already had COVID. 00:24:31 Betsy Carter: A few of us have been curious, will the mass testing be a throat or nose swab? 00:24:58 Lydia Tackett: FYI Family HealthCare downtown offers daily walk-up testing (8-4:45pm M-F), free, no symptoms required, throat swabs. 00:25:03 Kent Rodgers: Does the NDDoH have the resources to carry out contact tracing on a useful time line in the event of one or more dormitory outbreaks around the state? If not, how will NDSU back fill contact tracing capacity? 00:25:22 kristi steinmann: Should children at the NDSU Daycares also be tested? 00:26:05 Kent Rodgers: What is the infection rate threshold for closing the classrooms at NDSU? 00:26:11 Laura Oster-Aaland: Carrie Anne -- I'm going to leave your question on the daycare to Mike and we may need to get back to you on that one. 00:27:07 Donald Johnson: I did one in Valley City on Wednesday and it was a throat swab 00:27:30 Carrie Anne Platt: Thank you, Laura! You could add Kristi’s question re: testing children in the center to that same query. It’s often tricky to figure out how the general campus rules apply to the daycare. 00:27:48 Laura Oster-Aaland: Yes, I'll add Kristi's question as well. 00:27:50 Ganapathy Mahalingam: Does NDSU have a single POC (person of contact) to report cases or other issues or are these distributed by departments or buildings 00:27:59 Linda: what is limit testing for each day? 00:28:09 Emily Berg: Do you advise that employees who will continue to be remote get tested? 00:29:27 John Woolsey: For those that have questions of the NDSU Child Development Center please contact me outside of this training and I will work with the Director to get you answers to your questions. 00:29:28 Laura Oster-Aaland: Ganapathy -- In terms of reporting cases, those will be handled through the new reporting forms that will be online next week. 00:30:09 Kent Rodgers: Sounds good, but - again - does the capacity to do contact tracing on a useful time line exist in the event of multiple outbreaks? 00:30:46 Ganapathy Mahalingam: Thanks Laura. 00:30:58 Carrie Anne Platt: Thank you, John. Deb Habedank (director) has been great about communicating with parents regarding procedures. I just wanted to point out that potential conflict between mass testing and access to childcare. I’m not sure if the exclusion criteria is NDSU-specific or part of the state’s guidelines for childcare providers. 00:31:47 MMccourt: To reiterate Kent Rodgers' question (which is very important): What is the infection rate threshold for closing the classrooms at NDSU? This needs to be established a priori else we run the risk of escalation. 00:32:04 Carol: What is the protocol if a positive case is identified for a specific class? How will faculty member be notified? And who will notify students? 00:32:08 KHALL: Kent - the NDDoH has hundreds of contact tracers and continues to add more daily. They are anticipating an increase in cases this fall/winter and continue to onboard contact tracers. (I'm a former COVIID-19 Case Manager for the NDDoH) 00:32:46 Laura Oster-Aaland: Carol -- Casey will cover your question about notification of faculty soon. 00:33:23 Carol: Thank you Laura. 00:33:35 Beth Twomey: I think public areas of the university are going to be even more problematic than classrooms quite honestly when it comes to spread of infection since masks are not strictly required in these areas. 00:34:33 Carol: Beth - I agree. 00:34:37 Kelli Layman : Does the 6ft for 15 minutes or more hold turn if both people had masks on 00:34:42 Shannon Ueker: I thought masks WERE now required everywhere, even outside... 00:34:57 Kelli Layman : true 00:35:01 MMccourt: Are you saying that the decision to suspend f2f instruction is in the hands of the State and not NDSU? 00:35:11 David Bullock: National experts have said that regular (weekly or more frequent) will be critical to most universities being able to remain open over the entire semester. Is there a plan in place to conduct regular testing of NDSU students and faculty? If resources are a problem -- any discussion of utilizing pooled testing or random stratified testing? 00:35:16 Laura Oster-Aaland: Kelli -- Yes, 6 ft and 15 minutes still holds even if both parties are wearing masks 00:35:58 Matthew Salafia: Will faculty be notified if a student in their class tests positive? Or, is it dependent on where the student sits in the classroom? 00:36:18 Laura Oster-Aaland: David -- There is discussion about ongoing testing going on at the state level and we will participate if that is possible. 00:36:36 Laura Oster-Aaland: Matthew -- This will be discussed by Casey shortly 00:36:43 Kent Rodgers: Not sure my first question was clear - sorry for that. What is the campus-wide infection rate threshold for closing all classrooms and/or the campus and going remote for all instruction? 00:36:52 Kelli Layman : Thanks Laura 00:38:01 Matthew Salafia: thanks, laura 00:38:19 Laura Oster-Aaland: MMccourt - As I understand it would be a consultative decision. 00:39:30 Kent Rodgers: What does consultative decision mean. Who makes the decision and what are the parameters? 00:40:39 asunta thompson: UMN is closing their campuses and going all on-line at the Thanksgiving holiday break. Will we do the same assuming we have not had to go this direction prior to the holiday break and/or end of semester? 00:42:29 Kent Rodgers: UMN is making a smart move. Assuming we can keep the virus at bay with all the efforts being described here, it all stands to be undone by exposures during Thanksgiving travel. 00:42:39 Ganapathy Mahalingam: In a class if a student tests positive, then all students in the class go into quarantine and the positive student goes into isolation - is this the scenario? 00:43:20 MMccourt: Will students be allowed to have off campus visitors, or to travel off campus themselfes? 00:43:55 Craig Stockwell: Will the department chair also be notified as well as the instructor? 00:44:13 Laura Oster-Aaland: asunt -- NDSU is not planning to go fully online after thanksgiving at this time. We will of-course re-evaluate as the semestser progresses 00:44:25 Carol: If I have a positive in my class, do I have the autonomy to have all my students in the classroom go online? 00:44:26 christopher.colbert@ndsu.edu: Can we assume that for lab classes where students need to move around the room that a seating chart is not necessary, but that everyone is exposed? 00:44:27 Carrie Anne Platt: In addition to a seating chart/roster, should we keep a record of students we met with in person? I could see a situation where you spent 15 minutes talking to a student after class. Even if you are doing office hours virtually. 00:44:53 Lydia Tackett: Unless the tracers have a class seating chart, wouldn’t all students in class be possible close-contacts? 00:46:10 Laura Oster-Aaland: Ganapathy -- If a student tests positive and has been in a classroom (not all students will be present) the decision on which students/faculty need to quarantine will be made by DOH based on contact tracing. This is why seating charts will be helpful. 00:47:03 christopher.colbert@ndsu.edu: They will contact all instructors on the student’s schedule? 00:47:31 Carrie Anne Platt: So we also need to keep track of who is attending in person and who is remote? 00:47:40 Matthew Salafia: Can NDSU develop some additional contact tracing processes that apply directly to classrooms? I am concerned that the DOH methods might not adequately apply to the unique classroom situation. 00:48:09 Ganapathy Mahalingam: Thanks Laura. 00:48:23 Beth Twomey: The information provided about masks say "when... 6ft of distance cannot be maintained" https://www.ndsu.edu/admission/face_covering_guidelines 00:48:31 Sierra Giebel: How would a positive case influence a class that is hard to do remotely, such as in a lab setting? 00:49:31 Nancy Emerson: Is there a way in Turning Point in the attendance feature to distinguish between classroom and remote? 00:50:29 Lydia Tackett: @Nancy, you could do a survey question for that information. 00:51:01 Marc Wallman: Nancy, we have documentation on strategies for doing attendance here: https://kb.ndsu.edu/104725 00:51:28 MMccourt: Again: Will residential students be allowed to have off campus visitors, or to travel off campus themselves? 00:51:31 Marc Counterman: Reiterating on Kent’s question that I don’t know was fully answered. With a positivity rate of >5% on new tests for the previous few days (above the CDC threshold for opening), what strategies will be used if we do have a substantial outbreak on campus during the semester? 00:51:45 Carrie Anne Platt: So if we require masks, then no-one would be asked to quarantine? Is that the correct interpretation? 00:51:47 Laura Oster-Aaland: Kim -- Thank you for clarifying the mask/close contact information! Apologies if I muddied the waters. 00:52:54 Kendra Greenlee: Kim--just to clarify, then if we are requiring masks in classes, then no classes would have close contacts? 00:53:23 uwe: what is the testing schedule again for faculty on campus 00:53:36 matthew.thomas.smith: What about the time component to the contact tracing? Students will have masks on and may be in contact for well over 15 minutes. Would that not be traced for contact? 00:53:37 Laura Oster-Aaland: uwe http://ndus.edu/gettested/ 00:54:26 Justin Swank: For testing event. Can our family able to come to the test event as well? Looking more for faculty and staff. 00:54:31 Kent Rodgers: Closing the physical classrooms! 00:55:06 Shannon Ueker: all of the classrooms! is there an infection rate that would close all classrooms? 00:55:13 MMccourt: The emphasis on classroom infection ignores the reality that the outbreaks are probably going to be outside classroom. 00:55:23 Shannon Ueker: some of us don't work in a class... like me... 00:55:44 Becky Koch: Therefore, the determination of close contact should be made irrespective of whether the person with COVID-19 or the contact was wearing a mask. From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/public-health-recommendations.html 00:56:01 Allison Veronda: To clarify: students living on-campus are not required to test prior to moving in? 00:56:08 Ganapathy Mahalingam: was a workplace self-assessment done forf NDSU, if so do we get a copy to review? 00:56:36 wendy.kopp: Please clarify what qualifies as full PPE according to NDSU 00:58:04 Laura Oster-Aaland: Allison -- Correct, students living on campus are not required to test but strongly encouraged. 00:58:27 Beth Twomey: Students gather and study for extended periods of time in the Union and the Library and many lounge spaces in academic buildings. 00:58:58 uwe: how to make a seat chart paperless I don't know all the names etc. not 1st day 00:59:01 Carol: Where do we send students who have concerns when they learn there is a positive in a f2f setting? 00:59:35 Carol: We won't have specific info and they will chat amongst themselves. 01:00:07 Nancy Emerson: If a student reports a positive case to their faculty member prior to filling out the NDSU form, what recommendations do you have for proceeding with our class on that same day? 01:00:43 christopher.colbert@ndsu.edu: If there is a positive case of a student that was in a classroom, will all instructors that use that classroom be notified? 01:00:48 christina.hargiss: could create a google doc and have students type their name on it for paperless class list. This would require them to have an electronic device 01:01:08 Carol: There is a real risk of gossip running amok. 01:01:20 julie.wanzek: Will the tracing include the any contact they have had with other departments/employees? And, will the tracing have similar guidelines within a department/office setting? 01:01:35 Beth Twomey: How will staff working in public spaces be notified that they may have been exposed by students using the space? 01:03:09 Shannon Ueker: thank you, Bill! anxiety is so high... this is so sad... 01:03:42 Carol: They will do it through snapchat groups. 01:04:01 Carrie Anne Platt: Seconding Beth’s question. Would contract tracing include employees working in public spaces like the library? 01:04:16 Nancy Emerson: Faculty can also encourage a student to move to remote f2f if they are too anxious to attend class in person. 01:05:22 Laura Oster-Aaland: Julie -- Yes, the contract tracing will apply in the same way to an office/employee setting. 01:06:06 MMccourt: How often will testing be done once the initial tests are concluded? 01:06:52 Kate: Agree that space/classroom needs to be considered because students are responsible for cleaning their own spaces. If students aren’t doing that, the student sitting in that seat the next period, their odds of infection are probably higher. 01:07:18 Carol: Mike - but the risk of exposure was present when the infected person was there, so you let folks know so they can be aware that exposure could have happened at that time. 01:07:35 Carol: It isn't about enduring exposure. 01:07:39 MMccourt: That answer is not encouraging. 01:07:42 Kent Rodgers: Will there be a formal (i.e. from campus leadership) request that any student who leaves the FM area during the semester be tested upon their return and quarantine until the test results are available? 01:08:45 Ganapathy Mahalingam: Thank you for all the valuable information! 01:08:58 Carol: Thank you Casey! 01:09:03 Brenda Deckard: Thank you all for the thought and time placed on everyones safety! 01:09:09 julie.wanzek: Thank you! 01:09:13 andrew croll: thanks Mike et al.