NYU Updates In-Person COVID-19 Safety Guidelines
Starting today, students and faculty will have to provide proof of their vaccination.
Students and faculty at NYU can begin uploading their proof of vaccination to the university’s Student Health Center portal, according to a university-wide email sent by Dr. Carlo Ciotoli, Executive Lead of NYU’s COVID-19 Prevention and Response Team, on Friday, May 7.
“By tracking aggregate vaccination rates,” Dr. Carlo Ciotoli wrote in the email, “the University can make better informed public health decisions regarding community health, such as on-campus density, allowable in-person activities, and setting testing frequency.”
Effective June 7, all students and faculty who have received the final dose of any FDA-regulated vaccine, and had their information verified by the university, will be exempt from NYU’s campus testing requirements and will no longer have to quarantine following close exposure to an individual who has tested positive for COVID-19.
All students who received vaccination through the on-campus Student Health Center program will have their vaccination records automatically updated to their account. Those vaccinated off-campus must manually upload their vaccination card to the SHC portal under the “Medical Clearances” tab.
Regardless of vaccination status, all individuals will still be required to fill out the COVID-19 Prevention Team’s “self-report form” to alert the university of positive cases on-campus or any recent international travel.
The updated COVID-19 guidelines come less than a month after the university announced mandatory vaccinations for students who plan to resume in-person classes in the fall.
As appointments for vaccination become increasingly easier to make in New York, especially with Gov. Cuomo’s announcement that New York State sites will now accept walk-in appointments, the email also urges all community members to go out and get vaccinated.
“The science tells us that vaccination is vitally important to our goals of keeping each other safe while allowing us to ease campus restrictions and return to in-person activities,” Dr. Ciotello said in the email, “for these reasons, it is very important that NYUers who will be on campus in the fall get vaccinated.”
