Keeping up with the latest news, guidance and resources surrounding the national response to the spread of COVID-19 and other important issues can be difficult, as each day brings new developments and even more questions.
As UNMC and University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) faculty and staff work to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and other issues of importance, Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, is fielding questions from employees of both communities as they arise, and answering one new question daily on YouTube.
Faculty and staff can submit their questions to unmcevents@unmc.edu; please try to keep your questions as general as possible in order to help the largest number of employees.
Today’s question: How will we decide whether we will limit campus to only essential employees?
(Note: Each video includes captioning — simply click on the closed captioning (CC) button at the bottom of the video).
Are you taking questions? I'm wondering why, with highly sensitive PCR assays, we need such invasive sampling. Shouldn't a cough or sneeze or nose-blow on a wipe give enough virus? Especially since one breath is perhaps enough to infect others? Asking because I know of folks who are avoiding medical procedures they need because of the invasiveness of their required Covid test prior to treatment. Thanks.