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Community members ignore university’s asymptomatic testing program

Over a month has passed since the university created an asymptomatic testing program for university community members — which will end this month — but the majority of students, faculty and staff

October 11, 2020

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Coronavirus cases increase in Mississippi

Coronavirus cases in Mississippi have been steadily increasing during October, and according to Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the Mississippi state health officer, there have been over 300 K-12 student cases and over 6,000

October 8, 2020

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University creates new dashboard to track asymptomatic testing on campus

The university has launched a new dashboard to track data from the COVID-19 asymptomatic testing program on campus. The dashboard is located on the same webpage as the original COVID-19 dashboard, but

September 30, 2020

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Letter to the Editor: UM asymptomatic testing is free, but there is a cost if we don’t participate.

Dear Editor, I would like to add to the article in last Thursday’s DM about mass testing for COVID on campus. The university calls mass testing “sentinel testing” or “surveillance testing.” We

September 13, 2020

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