{"id":51866,"date":"2020-08-31T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-college-dorms-quarantined-after-10-students-test-positive-for-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:57:28","slug":"colorado-college-dorms-quarantined-after-10-students-test-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-college-dorms-quarantined-after-10-students-test-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado College dorms quarantined after 10 students test positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5b604f73-7dcb-4e7c-bf5d-55679ac32f57&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1424\" height=\"788\" alt=\"Colorado College in Colorado Springs. The small, private college said South and Mathias halls are on lockdown.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado College in Colorado Springs. The small, private college said South and Mathias halls are on lockdown.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Dr. DeNo\/Flickr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>All three major dormitories at<\/p>\n<p>The small, private liberal arts school in Colorado Springs announced Saturday that South and Mathias halls have been locked down for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>Loomis Hall and the more than 100 students who live in it are under a two-week quarantine that expires Sunday after a student tested positive for coronavirus and \u201cenhanced social distancing protocols\u201d put in place by the college weren\u2019t followed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\">new quarantines<\/a> were enacted, the college said, at the recommendation of El Paso County Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen students this week received positive test results for the virus, in cases that are related,\u201d the college said in an alert. \u201cAll of the students who received positive test results this week were immediately isolated, and others who were identified through contact tracing are already in quarantine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only first-year students are currently on campus at CC ahead of the return of other pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe acknowledge that this is not how students likely expected to begin their college career,\u201d CC said in an internet post for the campus community.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado College has a student population of about 2,500, the majority of whom have traditionally lived on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know this is a trying and difficult time. We are doing our best to be caring and responsible in reducing risk for our community. We appreciate your patience and support,\u201d Rochelle Dickey, acting dean of students\/acting vice president for student life, wrote in a letter to the campus community.<\/p>\n<p>Students who are in quarantine are being provided with food and are checked in with daily.<\/p>\n<p>Some students who have been quarantined in Loomis said they were only allowed outdoors for a limited period each day and had to stay within a spray-painted area around the dorm building. They said that they lacked air conditioning in their dorm rooms and were being encouraged to limit trips to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students provided with food, encouraged to take limited bathroom trips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88011,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51866\/revisions\/88011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51866"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}