Campus Mitigation

Campus Mitigation Levels

Note: COVID Mitigation Level has been Baseline since July 2022.

Definitions

Baseline	Moderate Mitigation	Increased Mitigation
Vaccines provide protection from severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Severity of disease on campus is mild to moderate. Essential services are not experiencing major impacts from the number of cases, either due to high demand or absenteeism. Isolation capacity and support for isolation are sufficient. Area healthcare capacity is good. Testing is readily available on and off-campus. Baseline mitigation may include: Vaccination requirements for students, faculty, and staff Vaccination requirements may extend to visitors Targeted public health requirements for specific activities, units, etc. to mitigate localized issues Limited additional mitigation per federal, state, or local requirements, e.g., masks required in healthcare facilities and public transportation	Vaccines protect from severe disease, hospitalization, and death, but may be waning. Severity of disease on campus is mild to moderate. Two or more essential services may be experiencing significant impacts from the number of cases, either due to high demand or absenteeism. Several classes held remotely due to absenteeism of students and/or faculty. Isolation capacity and/or support for isolation may be challenging. Area healthcare capacity is stressed, with moderately high census and long wait times in emergency rooms. Off-campus testing capacity may be stressed, with limited availability of home test kits and/or high demand for testing. Moderate mitigation may include: Universal or targeted mask mandates Universal or targeted asymptomatic testing requirements Visitor restrictions beyond vaccination requirements Gathering restrictions, including limiting to essential gatherings, prohibiting food, etc. Additional mitigation per federal, state, or local requirements	Vaccines may not protect from severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Severity of disease on campus is mild to severe. Two or more essential services may be experiencing serious impacts from the number of cases, either due to high demand or absenteeism. Isolation capacity and/or support for isolation may have serious obstacles. Most classes have moved to remote format due to the number of faculty and/or students in isolation or quarantine. Area healthcare capacity may be seriously stressed, with high ICU and/or in-patient census and long wait times or diversion in emergency rooms. Off-campus testing capacity may be stressed, with limited availability of home test kits and/or high demand for testing. High mitigation may include: Universal or targeted mask mandates Universal or targeted asymptomatic testing requirements Visitor restrictions beyond vaccination requirements Gathering restrictions, including limiting to essential gatherings, prohibiting food, etc. Occupancy limits Social distancing requirements Remote teaching Remote work Limitations to research Daily symptom check Additional mitigation per federal, state, or local requirements

Baseline

Moderate Mitigation

Increased Mitigation

Vaccines provide protection from severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Severity of disease on campus is mild to moderate.

Essential services are not experiencing major impacts from the number of cases, either due to high demand or absenteeism. Isolation capacity and support for isolation are sufficient.

Area healthcare capacity is good. Testing is readily available on and off-campus.

Baseline mitigation may include:

Vaccination requirements for students, faculty, and staff Vaccination requirements may extend to visitors
Targeted public health requirements for specific activities, units, etc. to mitigate localized issues
Limited additional mitigation per federal, state, or local requirements, e.g., masks required in healthcare facilities and public transportation

Vaccines protect from severe disease, hospitalization, and death, but may be waning. Severity of disease on campus is mild to moderate.

Two or more essential services may be experiencing significant impacts from the number of cases, either due to high demand or absenteeism. Several classes held remotely due to absenteeism of students and/or faculty. Isolation capacity and/or support for isolation may be challenging.

Area healthcare capacity is stressed, with moderately high census and long wait times in emergency rooms. Off-campus testing capacity may be stressed, with limited availability of home test kits and/or high demand for testing.

Moderate mitigation may include:

Universal or targeted mask mandates
Universal or targeted asymptomatic testing requirements
Visitor restrictions beyond vaccination requirements
Gathering restrictions, including limiting to essential gatherings, prohibiting food, etc.
Additional mitigation per federal, state, or local requirements

Vaccines may not protect from severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Severity of disease on campus is mild to severe.

Two or more essential services may be experiencing serious impacts from the number of cases, either due to high demand or absenteeism. Isolation capacity and/or support for isolation may have serious obstacles. Most classes have moved to remote format due to the number of faculty and/or students in isolation or quarantine.

Area healthcare capacity may be seriously stressed, with high ICU and/or in-patient census and long wait times or diversion in emergency rooms. Off-campus testing capacity may be stressed, with limited availability of home test kits and/or high demand for testing.

High mitigation may include:

Universal or targeted mask mandates
Universal or targeted asymptomatic testing requirements
Visitor restrictions beyond vaccination requirements
Gathering restrictions, including limiting to essential gatherings, prohibiting food, etc.
Occupancy limits
Social distancing requirements
Remote teaching
Remote work
Limitations to research
Daily symptom check
Additional mitigation per federal, state, or local requirements

Conditions That Could Prompt a Change to the Mitigation Status

Category	Baseline	Moderate Mitigation	Increased Mitigation
Vaccines	Effective protection from severe disease	Effective to waning protection from severe disease	Effective to decreased protection from severe disease
Disease severity (campus)	Mild to moderate	Mild to moderate. Few to no hospitalizations	Mild to severe
Case Impact	Minor impact on business continuity	Stressed continuity for one or more essential services. Several individual classes conducted remotely due to student or faculty absences.	Stressed continuity for two or more essential services. Most classes have moved to remote teaching due to student or faculty absences.
Isolation capacity and support	Sufficient combination of isolation facilities and isolation-in--place	Sufficient or with minor challenges to space or other support	Sufficient or with major obstacles
Area healthcare capacity	ICU capacity good ER and hospital good	ICU capacity good to moderately full ER and hospital good to stressed	ICU capacity good to full ER and hospital good to diverted
Testing capacity	Good. Lab turnaround time within planned limits.	Good to stressed. Moderate delays in turnaround time for test results.	Good to severely impacted. Extended turnaround time for test results

Mitigations May Include

Category	Available on Demand	Moderate Mitigation	Increased Mitigation
Masks	As required by local, state, or federal mandate; targeted requirements as needed	Universal or targeted mask mandate	Universal mask mandate
Testing	Required for unvaccinated individuals, other targeted populations	Asymptomatic testing required for broad populations	Asymptomatic testing required for all students, faculty, staff.
Teaching	In person	In person, limited remote	Limited to full remote
Research	Level 1 no restrictions	Level 1-2 minor restrictions	Level 2-4 minor to major restrictions
Work	In person	Limited remote work required	Remote work, as possible
Social Distancing	Not required	Not required	May be required
Visitors	Vaccination may be required	Some restrictions	Essential visitors only
Gatherings	Limited requirements, such as keeping attendance	Restrictions may include limiting food, requiring masks, limiting guests, etc.	Occupancy limits, mask requirements
Symptom Check	None	Limited requirements	Broad requirements
Vaccination	Required for students, faculty, staff. May be required for visitors.	Required for faculty, staff, students, visitors.	Required for faculty, staff, students, visitors.