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CSU to provide students free COVID-19 testing later this week

The Colorado State University Pandemic Preparedness Team announced in an email Tuesday night that the University will offer free COVID-19 testing to students Aug. 27 and 28. 

Testing will occur on a first-come, first-serve basis from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday at two pop-up tents located near Allison Hall and Academic Village. 

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“Any student is eligible to get tested,” the email said. “In particular, we recommend students get tested if you believe you may have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.”

To receive a test, students must register on the Biodesix portal with their personal information and student ID. Students can either pre-register or register on their smartphones at the time of the test by scanning a QR code, the email said. 

The email noted that the University is now entering phase 2 of the testing plan after successfully testing over 7,300 people last week. CSU has reported 11 positive COVID-19 tests since Aug. 17. 

Students who cannot make the testing times this week can contact the CSU Health Network or visit the Larimer County free testing site. 

The email also reported that the “quarantine, self-isolating and contact tracing systems are working well.” 

“While this is wonderful news, we cannot let our guard down as we know from the experience of other universities that outbreaks can occur suddenly and impact university operations,” the email read. “As we shared last week, each test reflects a moment in time, and exposure can happen at any time, so it’s important to continue testing.”

Serena Bettis can be reached at news@collegian.com or on Twitter @serenaroseb.

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Serena Bettis
Serena Bettis, Editor in Chief
Serena Bettis is your 2022-23 editor in chief and is in her final year studying journalism and political science. In her three years at The Collegian, Bettis has also been a news reporter, copy editor, news editor and content managing editor, and she occasionally takes photos, too. When Bettis was 5, her family moved from Iowa to a tiny town northwest of Fort Collins called Livermore, Colorado, before eventually moving to Fort Collins proper. When she was 8 years old, her dad enrolled at Colorado State University as a nontraditional student veteran, where he found his life's passion in photojournalism. Although Bettis' own passion for journalism did not stem directly from her dad, his time at CSU and with The Collegian gave her the motivation to bite down on her fear of talking to strangers and find The Collegian newsroom on the second day of classes in 2019. She's never looked back since. Considering that aforementioned fear, Bettis is constantly surprised to be where she is today. However, thanks to the supportive learning environment at The Collegian and inspiring peers, Bettis has not stopped chasing her teenage dream of being a professional journalist. Between working with her section editors, coordinating news stories between Rocky Mountain Student Media departments and coaching new reporters, Bettis gets to live that dream every day. When she's not in the newsroom or almost falling asleep in class, you can find Bettis working in the Durrell Marketplace and Café or outside gazing at the beauty that is our campus (and running inside when bees are nearby). This year, Bettis' goals for The Collegian include continuing its trajectory as a unique alt-weekly newspaper, documenting the institutional memory of the paper to benefit students in years to come and fostering a sense of community and growth both inside the newsroom and through The Collegian's published work. Bettis would like to encourage anyone with story ideas, suggestions, questions, concerns or comments to reach out to her at editor@collegian.com.

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