{"id":8991,"date":"2020-10-06T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/06\/even-in-covid-hot-spots-many-colleges-arent-aggressively-testing\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:35:35","slug":"even-in-covid-hot-spots-many-colleges-arent-aggressively-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/even-in-covid-hot-spots-many-colleges-arent-aggressively-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in COVID-19 hot spots, many colleges aren&#8217;t aggressively testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As universities across the country grapple with COVID-19 and ever-changing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the right way forward during the pandemic has proven to be a moving target. Elissa Nadworny and Sean McMinn of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/10\/06\/919159473\/even-in-covid-hot-spots-many-colleges-arent-aggressively-testing-students\">NPR<\/a><\/strong> focus on coronavirus testing on campuses in a piece they prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Nadworny visited Furman at the start of the semester and spoke to Ken Peterson, vice president for academic affairs and provost, about the need for surveillance testing. He said, &#8220;When you test negative, we think psychologically, you feel safer about your own health and well-being. So we actually think you&#8217;re less likely to mask up, you&#8217;re less likely to distance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, midway through fall semester with 20% mandatory surveillance testing in place at Furman, Peterson still maintains that students take more risks when they are presented with negative test results, but he hasn&#8217;t seen proof of that on campus. In correspondence to Nadworny, he wrote, &#8220;In my view, any such effect appears to be small and offset by our enhanced ability to stay ahead of [the] virus due to surveillance testing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As universities across the country grapple with COVID-19 and ever-changing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the right way forward during the pandemic has proven to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,6,69,35],"tags":[255,530,531],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-parent-news","tag-covid-19","tag-diagnostic-testing","tag-surveillance-testing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}