{"id":9500,"date":"2021-08-24T02:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/24\/more-than-85-of-furman-university-students-fully-vaccinated-as-semester-begins\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:42:37","slug":"more-than-85-of-furman-university-students-fully-vaccinated-as-semester-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/more-than-85-of-furman-university-students-fully-vaccinated-as-semester-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 85% of Furman University students fully vaccinated as semester begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/health\/more-than-85-of-furman-university-students-fully-vaccinated-as-semester-begins\/article_ffa770a4-0127-11ec-be95-333a19bd8d29.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong> covered move-in day for the class of 2025 at Furman University where the vaccination rate as of Aug. 16 was 86% among students, greater than 90% for faculty, and north of 70% for staff.<\/p>\n<p>For the article, reporter Stephanie Mirah spoke to several students and Jason Cassidy, associate vice president for student life and dean of students. \u201cThe students I\u2019ve engaged with &#8230; they\u2019re just excited to be able to have friends in their apartments and have other dining locations open where they weren\u2019t in the past \u2014 back to some of the more normal college experiences,\u201d Cassidy said.<\/p>\n<p>Senior orientation leader and psychology major Claire Cooper said, \u201cI think that Furman is doing a great job with their protocols because they want the best for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/furman-focused\/health-resources\/covid-19-dashboard\/\">Furman COVID-19 dashboard<\/a> updated as of Aug. 18, the numbers for the fully vaccinated on campus are 88% of students, 95% of faculty, and 75% of staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post and Courier covered move-in day for the class of 2025 at Furman University where the vaccination rate as of Aug. 16 was 86% among students, greater than 90% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,6,35,27],"tags":[994,995],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-student-life","tag-covid-19-mask-policy-move-in-day","tag-vaccination-rate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","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=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}