{"id":114178,"date":"2021-10-15T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=114178"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:35:44","slug":"dayton-campus-covid-19-testing-and-vaccination-center-opens-required-surveillance-testing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/10\/15\/dayton-campus-covid-19-testing-and-vaccination-center-opens-required-surveillance-testing-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Campus COVID-19 testing and vaccination center opens, required surveillance testing begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University will open a campus testing and vaccination center on the Dayton Campus in partnership with Premier Health next week.<\/p>\n<p>The center will offer free COVID-19 vaccines to students, faculty and staff and weekly required surveillance testing of randomly selected community members.<\/p>\n<p>The testing and vaccination center is located in 023 Student Union, near the WWSU radio station (see the map at the end of this article).<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 vaccines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty and staff who wish to obtain a Pfizer vaccination (either first shot, second shot, or third shot\/booster for those who qualify) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierhealth.com\/services\/infectious-disease-care\/covid19-info\/covid-19-vaccine\/vaccine-clinics\/wright-state-university-clinic\">can schedule an appointment<\/a> at the testing center.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State encourages all eligible people to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Employees and students who are fully vaccinated may report their vaccination status to the university and enter a voluntary giveaway. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/wright.edu\/giveaway\">wright.edu\/giveaway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asymptomatic surveillance testing <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright State will increase its surveillance testing of asymptomatic students, faculty, and staff on the Dayton Campus beginning next week.<\/p>\n<p>Students and employees randomly chosen each week will receive an email with instructions to schedule a free, required in-person COVID-19 test at the testing center or provide proof of a recent COVID-19 test to the university. Selected students and employees have one week to complete their test.<\/p>\n<p>The center will be open for in-person testing on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the remainder of the Fall Semester. Selected students and employees may also complete the required testing using a free at-home test kit, which will be available at the testing center.<\/p>\n<p>Free at-home kits will also be available to any student or employee for their own use. Limit one test kit per week per person. Please bring a current ID. At-home kits can be picked up at the testing center on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The testing center is limited to asymptomatic surveillance testing. If you have symptoms, please contact Student Health Services at Wright State Physicians by calling or texting 937-245-7200 or with a <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/wps\/portal\/gov\/covid-19\/dashboards\/other-resources\/testing-ch-centers\">local provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114174\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/testing-and-vaccine-center\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114174\" class=\"size-large wp-image-114174\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/10\/testing-and-vaccine-center-508x677.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The testing and vaccination center is located in 023 Student Union, near the WWSU radio station.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State will offer free COVID-19 vaccines and weekly required surveillance testing to students, faculty and staff in the testing and vaccination center, 023 Student Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/10\/15\/dayton-campus-covid-19-testing-and-vaccination-center-opens-required-surveillance-testing-begins\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":114129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,4839,4270,711,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-coronavirus","category-employee-wellness","category-faculty-staff","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114311,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114178\/revisions\/114311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}