New College Must-Have: Covid Tests for Safe Return to Campus
- UNC shuttered in-person classes after reopening without tests
- Binghamton requires 30-minute virus tests upon arrival
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Many universities see Covid-19 testing as the only way to safely bring students back to campuses this fall, but their approaches vary as widely as their mascots.
Some are requiring test results before a student gets to school, others are offering screenings upon arrival. Still others are relying on symptom screening and random surveillance testing. And the lucky ones with their own labs are putting them to work, regularly testing swabs or saliva from those on campus for the novel coronavirus.