Bowling Green State University is making changes to its health and safety protocols.
On June 2, following relaxed statewide regulations that encourage businesses and schools to make their own decisions about how to best keep their students, employees and customers safe, BGSU will institute the following changes:
- Fully vaccinated individuals will no longer be required to wear face coverings outdoors while on BGSU campuses;
- Fully vaccinated individuals will no longer be required to wear face coverings indoors, unless they are in a group setting of 10 or more individuals, while on BGSU campuses;
Unvaccinated individuals will be required to wear face coverings whenever they are around others on campus, both indoors and outdoors.
In his message to the community Chief Health Officer Ben Batey said waiting until June 2 to make th changes will give people time to get vaccinated.
In the letter Batey stated: “First, we recognize the revised guidelines were made based on growing scientific data around the overwhelming effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. For example, just last week, researchers from Cleveland Clinic released preliminary data that shows 99% of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 are not fully vaccinated. In addition, the CDC’s MMWR report recently found the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine are 94% effective against COVID-19 hospitalization among fully vaccinated adults. As previously announced, BGSU is strongly encouraging students, faculty and staff to get vaccinated.
