FAQs About COVID-19

Someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minutes). An infected person can spread SARS-CoV-2 starting from 2 days before they have any symptoms (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days before the positive specimen collection).

If you’ve had close contact with someone who has COVID-19, you should get tested 3-5 days after your exposure, even if you don’t have symptoms. You should also wear a mask indoors in public for 10 days following exposure or until your test result is negative.

Isolate for 5 days and report your positive test to the University via UB's COVID-19 Reporting Form.

Email Dr. Milling, Dr. Silvestri and Dr. Lesse as well as your course director to report your positive test.  

If you test positive for COVID-19, you can return to work when:

• at least 5 days have passed since symptoms first appeared, and
• at least 72 hours have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications, and
• symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath) have resolved or are improving. Rhinorrhea, if present, has fully resolved.

*Please note that our hospital partners, Roswell and the VA, require students to wait at 10 days since symptoms have passed before returning to clinic.

If you are asymptomatic, you can participate in pool testing offered at UB.

The times for pool testing are:

You may get vaccinated for COVID-19, the booster shot, and the flu shot at Jacobs School of Medicine, Room 2211 on Thursdays from 11am-2pm.

All students who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are required to obtain a booster and submit documentation. If you have not already done so, submit proof of your booster shot to UB Health Services via the patient portal as well as to our office at Medical Student COVID Vaccination Record by Monday, January 31, 2022.

If you are not yet eligible to receive a booster by January 31, you must obtain your booster and submit your documentation within one week of becoming eligible.

Please contact OME Deans: