GEORGETOWN, Ky.— A college in Georgetown is using its old dorms for students to quarantine if tested positive for the coronavirus.

What You Need To Know

  • Georgetown College utilizing old dorm to help students quarantine

  • The dorm is for students who don't have the option of going home

  • School is limiting the number of quarantine students the dorm can take

  • 94 students have been asked to quarantine at Georgetown
 

According to an update on August 26, Georgetown College has had 27 students test positive for COVID-19 and 94 students have been asked to quarantine.

“So for those students where it's just not possible to go home, we needed to provide someplace for them to be able to do their isolation or quarantine. And we were able to do that here at Georgetown, in an unused dorm, Knight Hall. Now the primary reason that it was unused was because it doesn't have central air conditioning.” The Vice President of Enrollment Management, Jonathan Sands Wise said. 

Using older dorms on campus, the students that are being asked to quarantine can stay in Knight Hall if they cannot go home. They will receive meals and check-ups throughout the day to help with anything they may need. 

“Certainly we have cases on campuses as everywhere does. We're in a pandemic. But you know they've been kept relatively under control, the students have been really cooperative and trying to help us figure out who has it and make sure we can do the contact tracing we need to do to keep the campus safe.” Sands Wise said. 

The only limiting factor that is keeping the number of students allowed to quarantine on campus at one time to a minimum is that the dorms do not have air conditioning. To make sure students are safe and comfortable they have added individual air conditioning units to each of the windows in the dorm. 

 “At Georgetown, we really are a community, you know we've got about 1,100 students here on campus so it's a pretty small feeling. We all know each other, we all care for each other. So we needed to make sure that we could care for students, even in these difficult times if they needed that.” Sands Wise said. 

You can go to the Georgetown College website or more information on their response to the changes with COVID-19.