{"id":14533,"date":"2009-10-27T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14533"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:11:57","slug":"h1n1-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/27\/h1n1-update\/","title":{"rendered":"H1N1 Update for Oct. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To<\/strong>: The Bates Community<br \/>\n<strong>From<\/strong>: Christy Tisdale, director of health services, and Tedd Goundie, dean of students<br \/>\n<strong>Date<\/strong>: Oct. 27, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Dear Members of the Bates Community,<\/p>\n<p>Our reported cases of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) have slowed  considerably.\u00a0 During the peak of the outbreak 97 new cases were  reported over a two-day period.\u00a0 Since having seven new cases reported  on Oct. 20, the day before the fall recess, we have had only four new  cases reported from Oct. 21 through today, Oct. 27.\u00a0 Our total number of  cases of ILI reported since the start of classes this semester is 271,  including the 27 cases reported prior to our first confirmed positive  case on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p>To date we have vaccinated 999 students with either the nasal spray or  injectable vaccine.\u00a0 Therefore of our total number of 1,714 students on  campus this fall, we can presume 1,270 of them now have some degree of  immunity, either from having the illness or from receiving the vaccine.\u00a0  There are only three students currently ill and isolated, with two of  them staying home to recuperate after exhibiting symptoms during the  break and the third self-isolated on campus; all other students who  reported ILI this semester have recovered and are out of isolation.<\/p>\n<p>We anticipate receiving another shipment of the nasal-spray vaccine for  students in the coming weeks, and encourage any student who has not yet  received the vaccine to get it.\u00a0 When the shipment arrives, we will  notify you of when and where the vaccines will be administered.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Center will continue with its daytime-only hours through this  week, and will resume its normal 24-hour service beginning Saturday,  Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Again we thank all who contributed to managing this outbreak, and  encourage everyone to continue frequent hand washing, coughing and  sneezing into sleeves or tissues, and reporting to the Health Center if  you experience flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our reported cases of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) have slowed considerably.  During the peak of the outbreak 97 new cases were reported over a two-day period.  Since having seven new cases reported on Oct. 20, the day before the fall recess, we have had only four new cases reported from Oct. 21 through today, Oct. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11012,11009],"tags":[256,161,4106,4330,11074],"class_list":["post-14533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-h1n1-health","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-health-center","tag-ili","tag-residential-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62442,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions\/62442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}