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Coronavirus
(COVID-19)

Information Center

COVID-19 Contacts

Last Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 12:28 pm

For Students

Please contact the Health and Wellness Center (HWC) at 610-758-3870 or through a secure message on the Patient Portal if you have specific medical concerns or symptoms. 

For a list of COVID-19 symptoms and guidance about when to seek emergency care, visit this CDC site

Experiencing COVID-Like Symptoms

  • Call the Health and Wellness Center at 610-758-3870 or send a secure message via the Patient Portal, or call the Lehigh Valley Health Network 24/7 nurse triage line at 1-888-402-LVHN. 
  • If you are experiencing a medical emergency and need to visit the hospital or emergency department, you should call 911.

Positive COVID Test

  • All positive student tests should be reported to the Health and Wellness Center through the HWC Patient Portal.
  • Via HWC or Vault surveillance test: HWC will contact you directly. 
  • Via non-Lehigh test: Upload your positive PCR test result to the HWC portal and send a secure message to HWC via the portal. HWC will contact you. 

Isolation 

  • View the current isolation and quarantine protocol.
  • For questions about your medical condition, call the Health and Wellness Center at 610-758-3870 or through a secure message on the Patient Portal. If you are experiencing a true medical emergency and need to visit the hospital or emergency department, you should call 911.
  • For questions about isolation housing, email inisohsg@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-3500.
  • For questions about food in isolation housing, email inisohsg@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-3500.

Quarantine for Possible Exposure (close contact of a positive case)

  • Students may call the Health and Wellness Center at 610-758-3870 and arrange to pick up a rapid test.

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    Dining

    • For general dining questions, call 610-758-4166
    • For questions about food in isolation housing, email inisohsg@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-3500.
    • For special dietary needs, please call Carrie Gerencher, on-campus registered dietitian, at 484-357-2258.

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    For Staff/Faculty

    Experiencing COVID-Like Symptoms

    • Immediately notify your supervisor, department chair or PI, go home and self-isolate.
    • Contact Christine Wolfe, RN, the university’s Employee Health Nurse Case Manager from Lehigh Valley Health Network at 610-861-8080 ext. 23504 or Christine.Wolfe@lvhn.org
    • You may also contact your primary care physician first and follow their advice, including scheduling a COVID-19 test, if recommended. If you do so, you should still contact the LVHN Employee Health Nurse Case Manager.

    Exposed to a Person Who Has COVID-19

    • Monitor symptoms and test on day five after known exposure.
    • Lehigh’s occupational health nurse remains available for consultation by faculty and staff.

    Positive COVID Test

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