#BREAKING: @NotreDame President Rev. John Jenkins will quarantine after attending the nomination ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the @WhiteHouse Rose Garden
#BREAKING: @NotreDame President Rev. John Jenkins, in an email to students, faculty and staff, writes in part:
"I regret my error of judgment in not wearing a mask during the ceremony and by shaking hands with a number of people in the Rose Garden."
#MORE: Jenkins continues: "I failed to lead by example, at a time when I’ve asked everyone else in the Notre Dame community to do so."
#MORE Jenkins continues: "I especially regret my mistake in light of the sacrifices made on a daily basis by many, particularly our students, in adjusting their lives to observe our health protocols."
#MORE: Jenkins closes his email to @NotreDame students, faculty and staff with this:
"Thank you for your continued efforts during this semester, and for your understanding."
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#NEW: Gov. Holcomb says contact tracing for him and his security detail is being handled by Dr. Box and her staff.
Gov. Holcomb says he'll be tested in this next week. Says his executive order implementing restrictions won't be changed this week. Says staff talking w/ hospitals
#NEW: Gov. Holcomb says he's worried about rising hospitalization data.
Says as we see community spread occur, that eventually leads to hospital beds filling up. Also leads to schools going virtual, parents staying home, businesses having fewer workers.
#THREAD: For those curious about why @NotreDame’s COVID dashboard yesterday and today didn’t include the 7 additional football positive tests, I asked ND VP Paul Browne. He replied: (1/)
“Test results from FB came back on Monday but not reconciled with our corona response unit, which manages the dashboard, in time for the Monday posting or Tuesday posting at noon. It’s not unusual for there to be a lag of a day between test results from the day before and...”(2/)
“... their posting on the dashboard the next day. In this case the leg was longer than normal, but ultimately football numbers are included in our dashboard, as our positives of Notre Dame students or employees were tested off campus.” (3/)
It begins: "It is with deep concern that we respond to the Tuesday letter written by a group of Notre Dame professors on why it is “the right decision…to have students learn and live together in person” during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic." (2/10)
"Their major rationale in support of on-campus learning is that they feel the recent outbreak... has not raised the health risks “high enough” to warrant closing down the campus...
The main flaws in these faculty authors’ arguments are threefold." (3/10)
#NEW: @NotreDame President John Jenkins announces that the University *will* return to in-person classes and can return in stages to the levels of activity the campus had before moving online.
The moves will begin Sept. 2nd
#NEW: @NotreDame President John Jenkins strongly encourages students who are contacted for surveillance testing to respond. Also emphasizes the importance of wearing masks & social distancing.
Says after 2 weeks of online classes, the University is in a much stronger position.
#NEW: Jenkins says 87 students will soon have hearings for violations of University COVID safety policies.