Among the changes to Temple's campus this semester was the introduction of the Student Community Health Ambassador program: students who help encourage the Temple community to follow the university's four pillars of public health. Many of them are student workers whose other campus jobs have been furloughed. Media studies and production major Nicholas Palomba, Class of 2022, had been working at Charles Library before the coronavirus pandemic led to him being temporarily laid off. His boss wrote to him about the ambassador program. "It sounded like a good opportunity," Palomba...
We've got answers to the top questions the Temple community is asking Health Services around COVID-19 testing and exposure. Learn the play-by-play for exactly what to do, whether you have symptoms or not. What to do if you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19Isolate yourself immediately, even if you haven't received a test.Log in to the Online Student Health portal, click on the COVID-19 tab and record your symptoms. (Temple employees should call Employee Health Services at 215-204-2679 to report a positive case.)Wait for Health Services to contact you with suggested next...
Temple has introduced several new measures to ensure the health and safety of its community during the coronavirus pandemic, including contact tracing.When someone tests positive for or is likely to have COVID-19, contact tracing is how the people they have come into close contact with—and who might have been exposed to the virus—are identified, monitored and supported. The patient's identity isn't discussed with the contacts.At Temple, the Contact Tracing Unit (CTU) will use interviews and available data to find out where someone who tested positive has been and...
