Vaccine
Can I be exempt from quarantine if I am fully vaccinated?
That depends. If you are fully vaccinated and exposed between 15-90 days (about 3 months) since receiving the last dose AND your vaccine card has been fully verified you can be exempt from quarantine.
However, if any symptoms develop you will be required to quarantine as normal. If you are fully vaccinated and exposed more than 90 days after receiving the last dose OR your vaccine card is not valid you would need to follow UC quarantine procedures as normal.
However, if any symptoms develop you will be required to quarantine as normal. If you are fully vaccinated and exposed more than 90 days after receiving the last dose OR your vaccine card is not valid you would need to follow UC quarantine procedures as normal.
How is campus planning for vaccine distribution?
The University of Cincinnati currently has a work group that is meeting to design and work on plans to ensure vaccine distribution. More details to follow. Please make sure to check here.
Will the vaccine be mandatory?
With regard to the COVID-19 vaccines, UC's physician-led COVID Response Team advocates for vaccination as a safe and a significant contributor to the safety of our community. Thus, the university strongly recommends COVID-19 vaccination but will not mandate COVID-19 vaccination for students, faculty, or staff for the coming academic year.
Does having the vaccine exclude me from mandatory testing?
The infectious disease experts in UC’s Academic Health Center recommend that students who have received a COVID-19 vaccine still participate in required testing. Thus, COVID-19 vaccination status cannot serve to exempt students from required testing.
This is due to the following:
As more research and studies regarding vaccination and post-vaccination infection are addressed, the Academic Health Center infectious disease may revisit this recommendation.
This is due to the following:
- Vaccine efficacy was studied for prevention of disease only, not infection or viral transmission after infection.
- It is still an unknown as to whether a vaccinated individual can still be infected and asymptomatic, and if so, be infectious.
- There here is no cross-reactivity between vaccine and a PCR test, i.e., being vaccinated cannot lead to a false positive COVID-19 test by PCR. (It can by some antibody tests.)
As more research and studies regarding vaccination and post-vaccination infection are addressed, the Academic Health Center infectious disease may revisit this recommendation.