Dear UCSF Community,
I wrote to you last week with an important message about new UCSF travel policies and return-to-work guidance that were put in place to help keep us safe during the holidays as COVID-19 surges nationwide. Today, I’m following up with information about where and how to get tested for COVID-19 before you return to on-site activities if you traveled over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Starting Monday, Nov. 30, UCSF will offer COVID-19 testing to employees and students who are resuming on-site activities after travel. Testing plays a central role in keeping our community safe during this pandemic, so please review this update carefully.
Asymptomatic after Travel
After reviewing the UCSF travel guidance, if you determine a COVID-19 test is advised in your situation and you are asymptomatic, please visit the UCSF COVID-19 testing page—available starting Nov. 30—to access a tool that will guide you through the process of obtaining a COVID-19 test.
Symptomatic after Travel (or return before Nov. 30)
If you return from travel before Nov. 30 or have symptoms, please contact UCSF Occupational Health Services for further guidance.
Though UCSF continues to strongly recommend against all non-essential personal travel, we recognize that some travel may be impossible to avoid. If you must travel,...
Dear UCSF Community,
As the COVID-19 infection rate accelerates in California and across the country, Governor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Department of Public Health have issued public health advisories regarding holiday travel. To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and to protect the UCSF community, frontline care workers, and patients, UCSF is issuing updated travel guidance aligned with our state and local public health officials.
If you are considering travel outside of the 9 Bay Area counties (and Fresno) over the holidays, including domestic and international, it is important that you understand UCSF’s updated travel policy, as it may impact your plans or ability to return to on-site work and activities.
UCSF continues to strongly recommend against all non-essential personal travel. We recognize that making a decision not to travel during the holiday season may be difficult for many. However, avoiding travel in the midst of an expanding pandemic will help slow the transmission of COVID-19 and protect you, your family, and friends.
If travel is unavoidable, please visit the updated UCSF travel policy for important guidance and steps you should take before returning to on-site work and activities after traveling.
The updated travel policy addresses:
- Guidance for on-site...