Ella Ruehsen , Assistant News Editor
• March 16, 2021
Forty-one new cases of COVID-19 were discovered among the student body in the last week, with 21 from on-campus students and 20 from off-campus students.
Three days before the week’s results were...
In UVM’s first week of twice-weekly testing, 32 positive test results were received out of the nearly 20,000 tests administered during the first week of March.
According to UVM’s COVID-19 dashboard,...
Ella Ruehsen, Assistant News Editor
• March 2, 2021
On the first day of twice-weekly mandatory testing, the UVM COVID-19 testing center attempted to parse through 5,000 students, as the lines to get tested stretched across campus.
The coronavirus testing...
Ella Ruehsen, Assistant News Editor
• February 25, 2021
UVM is doubling down its COVID-19 safety measures with increased testing and harsher penalties for rule violations after a record-high 62 cases were detected among students last week.
In a Feb. 25 email...
Ella Ruehsen, Assistant News Editor
• February 23, 2021
Editor's note: This piece takes on a different form of journalism Cynic readers may not be accustomed to. Read the letter from the Editor-in-Chief here to learn more.
Since this past fall...
Irene Choi, Assistant News Editor
• February 22, 2021
UVM has surpassed previous testing highs for the second week in a row, but officials say the University’s COVID-19 policies and mitigation strategy will remain the same.
With 64 new positive cases...
The University of Vermont is adding an additional on-campus location to quarantine students after nearly 80 tested positive for COVID-19 in the first two weeks of the semester.
In an email sent Sunday...
Nicole Hardy, Cynic News Reporter
• February 17, 2021
UVM students will remain in the dark as state and University officials have not yet established a plan to roll-out the COVID-19 vaccine.
While UVM’s weekly testing report indicating that nearly 50...
Feb. 16, 2021
Nearly 50 students tested positive for COVID-19 last week marking the highest number of student positives to date at UVM.
Thirty-six on-campus residential students and 10 off-campus students tested positive for COVID-19 out of 11,036 total student swabs taken between Feb. 8 and Feb. 14.
Ella Ruehsen, Cynic News Reporter
• February 12, 2021
Over 1,000 UVM students did not get their pre-arrival test results back in time for the first day of school, according to a representative from the company that ran the tests.
The company, Color,...
Lila Cumming, Cynic News Reporter
• February 1, 2021
Despite rising cases of COVID-19 in Vermont and an uptick in cases at the end of last semester, UVM will maintain the same strategy for containing the coronavirus during the spring semester.
Although...
Emma Pinezich, News and Sports Editor
• November 21, 2020
COVID test results have been delayed due to an issue at the lab that processes UVM’s tests following a week of record-high case numbers at UVM.
The delay comes just as students are returning home...
