KCC/CUNY Updates
KCC Updates
Last updated September 17, 2021 3:44 pm
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 at 10:07PM
Subject: CUNY COVID-19 Safety Tracker
CUNY will be posting safety metrics weekly on Mondays for your review.
This information will include test conducted at KCC Testing site as well as any positive cases we may have.
https://www.cuny.edu/coronavirus/
Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 2:07PM
Subject: College protocols
Dear College Community,
The health and safety of every member of our College community is important to us. Please be advised of the following College protocols for the coming semester.
IT BEGINS WITH YOU
It is important that you do not come to campus and do not test at any CUNY sites if any of the following applies to you:
o Currently experiencing or recently experienced (in the last 48 hours) any new or worsening COVID-19 symptoms.
o Are unvaccinated and have recently (in the last 10 days) been in close contact (within 6 feet for at least 10 minutes over a 24-hour period) with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 or is suspected to have COVID-19 based on symptoms.
o Tested positive through a diagnostic test for COVID-19 in the past 10 days.
o Recently traveled domestically or internationally and are unvaccinated. All individuals should follow the CDC domestic travel recommendations and international travel recommendations before reporting to work or campus and notify their manager in advance of the travel dates and should quarantine be required.
If any of the aforementioned applies to you and you test positive, there will be more potential exposure to members of our community. In the event that the aforementioned applies, go to a non-CUNY sites to test. The following are helpful resources COVID Express sites or COVID-19 Test Site Finder.
POSITIVE TESTS
If you do not feel well or have been in contact with someone who tested positive, let your supervisor know and get tested at a non-CUNY site. If you test positive, contact Karen St. Hilaire (karen.sthilaire@kbcc.cuny.edu) to report positive results tests and to provide information so that Contact Tracing can commence. Karen will ensure that you have the correct information/instructions regarding isolation and quarantine.
CONTACT TRACING
Information will be collected from you regarding your symptoms, the areas of the College you visited, and the names of everyone you have been in contact with immediately prior to exhibiting symptoms. As a precautionary measure, those individuals will be notified. The University is in contact with the DOH and are following protocols with regards to thresholds of risk.
SANITIZATION
To ensure the stop of the potential additional spread of the virus, offices/areas will be sanitized and depending on the circumstances, entire areas might be closed temporarily for cleaning.
NOTIFICATION TO CAMPUS
Notification of positive cases will be sent to the college community once per week (this is a change from daily reporting that we did previously). To protect the privacy of members of our community, names will not be shared. We also ask that you do not share this information.
RETURNING TO CAMPUS
If you tested positive, upon your return to campus we will only accept PCR tests from a non-CUNY test site in order to clear you to come back to campus. Remember that there are new rapid PCR tests, as such because they are PCR tests, they are acceptable.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Karen St. Hilaire
Coronavirus Liaison
Local Vaccination Authority for Students
Kingsborough Community College
Telephone: 718.368.6524
Email: karen.sthilaire@kbcc.cuny.edu