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Get the vaccine
Stay home if sick
Seek testing if needed
Wash hands
Recommendations and guidance to help keep our community safe. All Mizzou community members should continue to monitor symptoms daily, practice hand hygiene and stay home if ill.
Booster shots
The recent emergence of the omicron variant further emphasizes the importance of vaccination, boosters and prevention efforts needed to protect against COVID-19.
All MU community members are strongly encouraged to complete their vaccination process, including booster shots, as soon as they are eligible.
For more information, visit our Vaccine information page.
Immunocompromised individuals:
If you are immunocompromised or have a weakened immune system, it is recommended that you continue to socially distance and wear a mask when in close contact with others you do not live with or interact with on a regular basis, even if fully vaccinated.
All MU community members:
Vaccines
Vaccination is strongly encouraged and is the most important tool in preventing COVID-19 and its spread.
Vaccine information
Testing
Testing information for students, faculty and staff:
- How to get tested
- When to seek testing
- Guidance if you test positive for COVID-19
Testing
Report a positive COVID-19 diagnosis
All students, faculty and staff are required to notify the university if they receive a positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Students:
Students must notify the MU Student Health Center within four hours of receiving their positive test result by submitting a secure online form. They must also notify their instructors they will not be attending class to make arrangements to continue their studies remotely, if they are able.
Guidance for students dealing with COVID-19
Employees:
Faculty and staff should notify their supervisor within four hours of receiving a positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Guidance for employees dealing with COVID-19
Face coverings
We ask that you wear a quality, well-fitting mask regardless of vaccination status while indoors or in crowded outdoor settings.
Free face coverings are available throughout campus and at the bookstore.
Face covering guidance
Hand hygiene
Proper hand washing remains one of our best defenses against the spread of clinical disease:
- Wash hands (with soap and water for at least 20 seconds) frequently throughout the day.
- If soap and water are not readily available, you can use an ethyl alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains 60%-95% alcohol.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when coughing or sneezing.
- Throw used tissues in the trash.
- Wash your hands with soap and water immediately after coughing, sneezing, blowing your nose or using the restroom.
Symptom self-monitoring
All university community members should be aware of the symptoms of COVID-19 and self-monitor their health for signs of illness. Stay home if you feel unwell, are waiting for test results, have been exposed to someone who has COVID-19 or have tested positive.
COVID-19 symptoms
