What it’s like to test positive for COVID, have your university shut down, and then learn you don’t have COVID after all.
the university issued about the false positives earlier this week. This piece has been transcribed, condensed, and edited for clarity by Julia Craven.I took the test last Wednesday, during the first week of orientation for new students. I had come back to campus two weeks before school started, with all of the upperclassmen selected to serve as advisers. We’re put through training so we can help new students prepare for student life here.
During O-week, we all had sore throats and we were all tired. We’re constantly helping and cheering on the new students. We were already very stressed out and were trying to give all these students the best possible experience. We’d heard that around 15 people tested positive in one of the residential colleges. They were just rumors at the time.Once that happened, we were really worried. The coordinators of our residential college stated that we all had to get a COVID test.
I was rooming with another person that had a false positive as well. We had no symptoms whatsoever. We were really wary of each other. We both wore masks all the time and there was no divided area. And I was fortunate to have just one roommate.I got an email later that night stating that all asymptomatic positives were being retested on Friday morning. So, I went and took
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