Six Positive Cases Brings COVID-19 Total for Fall Semester Up to 15

Posted By on Nov 11, 2021 | 0 comments

Glatfelter Hall (Photo Aly Leia Wein/The Gettysburgian)

Glatfelter Hall (Photo Aly Leia Wein/The Gettysburgian)

Yesterday, Vice President for College Life and Dean of Students Anne Ehrlich sent out a campus-wide email updating the College community on the current COVID-19 situation.

Over the past week, there were six positive cases among students, bringing the semester total up to 15. She clarified that these cases were restrained to one student group; the positive cases are in quarantine and mitigation strategies have been put in place for the rest of the group.  

“We are confident in our ability to contain and isolate these cases, and our overall campus positivity rate remains very low,” she said.

Ehrlich added that mitigation strategies will be put in place campus-wide if there is a sign of widespread transmission. She encouraged students to get tested for free at Health Services or the testing site if they are concerned. 

Author: Katie Oglesby

Katie Oglesby ‘23 serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Gettysburgian. She has previously served as Magazine Editor, News Editor, Assistant News Editor, and Staff Writer. She is an English with a writing concentration and political science major, hailing from San Diego, California, but now living in rural North Carolina. On campus, Katie works at the CUB information desk, is an Eisenhower Institute Fielding Fellow, and serves as co-service vice president for the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. She spent a semester abroad in Bath, England studying British literature and politics, and spent this past summer interning with the Winston-Salem Journal in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She can usually be found perusing books in the Musselman Library browsing room.

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