{"id":8964,"date":"2021-01-10T20:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:50:45","slug":"covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2021\/01\/10\/covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because COVID-19 symptoms can mirror allergies, we strongly encourage anyone experiencing symptoms to get tested.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to meet NCAA guidelines for COVID-19 testing of student-athletes. Basketball and volleyball players are each tested three times per week. Students in other sports are tested based on their determined risk level per NCAA recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>For students who are participating in student activities this semester, we are implementing surveillance testing.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of our research partnership with Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, all faculty, staff, and students who are NOT experiencing symptoms can receive free COVID-19 PCR testing by scheduling an appointment on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acu.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=112f33c6039c1e5fe7d569800&amp;id=8ee985fc6f&amp;e=fd91c75eb5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/acu.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D112f33c6039c1e5fe7d569800%26id%3D8ee985fc6f%26e%3Dfd91c75eb5&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610401476155000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHI1TpLyFYCOkr8DLPqk_oomFY_yw\">this calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For individuals who are experiencing symptoms, the ACU Medical Clinic offers the rapid antigen test for $40. Call the clinic at (325) 674-2625 to schedule an appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because COVID-19 symptoms can mirror allergies, we strongly encourage anyone experiencing symptoms to get tested. We continue to meet NCAA guidelines for COVID-19 testing of student-athletes. Basketball and volleyball players are each tested three times per week. Students in other sports are tested based on their determined risk level per NCAA recommendations. For students who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,208100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions\/8965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}