SILVER CITY, N. M. – The University of Western New Mexico will soon have immediate functions on campus.
To further mitigate the spread of coronavirus and a healthy campus and community, WNMU leaders have been researching sets of controls in recent months.
In October, the university expects to be able to perform SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests on campus and get the effects in 15 minutes. Non-emerging tests will continue to be done through WNMU’s medical partner, Hidalgo Medical Services.
“Rapid testing, combined with extensive touch studies and quarantine, is one of the most productive tactics to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in a community. Our purpose is for academics to return to elegance and sport sooner,” WNMU President Dr. Joseph Shepard said.
As the NCAA will soon require more common and normal testing of student-athletes, WNMU’s Director of Athletics Mustang Scott Noble is coordinating efforts to obtain nasal swab test sets and the entire education and certification process.
“At WNMU Mustang Athletics, we work within our institutional and national rules and also adhere to NCAA protocols, which is only imaginable through immediate testing. Veritor BD’s formula meets all the needs of the NCAA and establishments for immediate testing, and WNMU is about to put it into effect on campus as soon as it arrives,” he said noble. “Our student athletes will now be able to exercise and compete with the security that the virus will not spread. “
Antigen testing has a sensitivity rate of 84%, so negative effects will be considered as presumed, and the university will inspire more evidence and quarantine imaginable. “These tests are a tool to help us track the virus faster and isolate anyone who can only potentially transmit the virus faster than if we were forced to wait days to see the effects,” Dr. Shepard said.
For 125 years, Western New Mexico University has served others in its region as a global and rural public organization. As an establishment serving Hispanics and the state’s only public university of liberal arts and sciences implemented, WNMU is committed to crossing -Cultural opportunities that inspire others to explore new experiences. The WNMU student body represents each and every segment of the diverse population of southwestern New Mexico.