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Hi everyone
I'm Jim Ryan and I hope you're having a

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nice evening. I'd like to welcome you to
what we are going to be calling

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UVA Weekly, a Thursday night program that
will feature updates not just from me

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but also from UVA students and from our
medical professionals. Our aim with this

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program
is to bring you up to date on how things

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are going and to highlight the most
important news of the week related to

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COVID-19.
It's meant to complement the Thursday

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newsletter and the admittedly
sometimes long and dense emails you've

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received.
In this week's segment you'll hear about

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the importance of getting tested through
UVA Health

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and cooperating with contact tracing
neither of which will get you in trouble

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and both of which are really important
so that we can stay one step ahead of

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the virus and slow its spread.
You'll also hear about the randomized

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testing that's going to begin later this
week as well.

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This show is coming a few days after we
began in-person classes

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and I hope everyone is well and
adjusting to a new way of learning and

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living.
I had the opportunity to help move in

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some students over the weekend,
a weekend of great excitement but also

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anxiety for sure
for all of us. This is going to be a very

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different kind of semester
and one that will require all of us to

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work together to keep each other safe
and well.

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I've been really impressed by and
grateful for the efforts I've seen so

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far
on the part of students, faculty and

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staff to follow health and safety
protocols. I know the various rules can

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seem complicated at times
but the basics are really simple; stay

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six feet apart and wear a mask when
inside,

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wear a mask outside when you can't be at
least six feet apart,

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wash your hands frequently, don't have
gatherings that include more than 15

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people
and if you have symptoms, please self

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quarantine
until you can get tested and please get

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tested right away.
Last, if you're living on Grounds, I would

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suggest you avoid gatherings off Grounds
for a couple of weeks.

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Let's ease into the semester and do our
best to keep this virus at bay.

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That's all from me tonight. If you have
questions or suggestions for the show

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please reach out to my office or to Matt
Weber at mw2xy@virginia.edu

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This is an experiment and
one that we will continue to work on

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to make sure we're getting you the
information you need while at the same

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time showcasing
some of the talents within this

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remarkable community. Our hope is that
this show

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will help bring and keep the community
together during an exceptionally

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challenging time.
Thanks and enjoy the show.

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Every single day, we don't know what's going to come
next. We don't know

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how this is going to end, when this is
going to end.

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We will get through this and we will get back to a
time when life is a little bit easier.

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There's not one big thing we can all do,
it's a lot of little things that are

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going to add up.
Hope is the one thing that keeps us

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going when we can't see what's on the
other side.

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We have the opportunity to give the
country some hope.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Hello, my name is Zeno and I'm
representing the #YOUVA Team

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which is a peer-led public health
initiative and we hope to do things like

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help to educate students on COVID
procedures and stats,

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grow a community of care and support and
finally decipher some of those

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encyclopedic email messages we keep
getting from

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the administration. In COVID news as of
Tuesday there are 190 student cases

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and 231 in the University community as a
whole.

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This is a number reported through the
Student at UVA Health and it is high.

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UVA has started a couple of asymptomatic
testing programs including prevalence

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testing.
This is randomized and if you're

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selected you'll get a letter and a
testing appointment

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with details on the location. The test
shouldn't take more than 10 minutes

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and it's just like the Let's Get Checked
test we're all very familiar with.

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Testing and contract tracing are the
best ways for us to keep each other

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and the community safe, so please show up
for your appointment

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if you get selected. Also if you have
symptoms of COVID-19

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call Student Health, you won't get into
trouble at all if you have a positive

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test
or for any information that you reveal

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for contact tracing purposes
and their tests have quick turnaround

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times. Move-in was this weekend
and over four thousand students came to

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Grounds with parents and family in tow
to move into dorms. Faculty and staff are

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working hard to make this process a
success

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including workers in dining and
facilities who are struggling to support

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themselves,
their families, their own safety and

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health while working to keep us safe and
healthy too.

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The dining hall lines and crowd at
O'Hill increases health risks for us

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and many of those workers. To combat this,
think about going to other dining

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locations like Runk or Newcomb
and maybe go earlier or later to avoid peak

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times.
Wouldn't it be dope if UVA had an app

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that could let you sign up for a plate
to pick up?

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I have no idea this exists within dining
halls currently but computer science

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majors this could be a come up so y'all should jump on it!

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Also RA's have released demands
anonymously calling for systemic support

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during the pandemic to keep themselves,
workers and residents safe.

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As a former RA, I know they need it.
Students are continuing to ask for

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change
that needs to happen and that's

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incredibly important.
I hope that the hard-working individuals

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in HRL can provide while receiving
resource

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from the UVA administration. This is the
first in what we hope will be

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a weekly segment and the UVA Team wants
to hear from you.

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What is confusing you? Annoying you? What
do you want to know more about in terms

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of UVA and the virus?
What issues you'd like us to promote and

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bring up to others? Email us with your
thoughts at

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YouVA@virginia.edu and we'll try to
address your questions through your

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posts in future videos.
You can follow the campaign on Instagram

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@youva.safe
Why my friends on the team chose me to

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do this every week is beyond me,
but I hope you'll stay tuned to watch me

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either become an overnight success
or a total train wreck, either way this

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could be fun. I mean like what are you
watching? NBA Playoffs or something?

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Testing at UVA for COVID-19 is
constantly evolving as we

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integrate new knowledge and experiences
from other institutions.

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Currently testing for COVID-19 has
several different pathways at UVA.

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One is obvious for symptomatic people
who have symptoms consistent with COVID-19.

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We have testing available at Student Health

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and
through Employee Health, but we've also

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supplemented that with several other
testing strategies.

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For example, we have the ability to test
asymptomatic significant contacts of

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people who have been maybe
exposed to COVID-19. Also a team led by

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Dr. Amy Mathers
is looking at the dormitories and

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sampling the wastewater that comes from
those buildings and if those buildings

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turn
positive for COVID-19, then we will go

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into the dormitories
and test all the students residing there

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to try to detect infections
at the earliest stages. What's new and

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evolving at UVA is that we're now
embarking on large-scale

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prevalence testing. We'll be randomly
selecting students beginning later this

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week
and testing them for COVID-19 with the

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intent that we hope to find
asymptomatic infections at the earliest

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stages that allows us to isolate and
quarantine significant contacts to try

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to contain the viral spread as much as
possible.

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We hope in the coming months that we'll
expand that testing

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to a larger group of students as we
develop further capabilities. So

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stay tuned as this continues to evolve,
but we think

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that our testing plan really allows us
to,

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again, isolate people who may be infected,
remove them

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from the general population where the
virus can spread

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and also detecting patients and students
who may have come into contact with

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COVID-19
so we can quarantine those as well.

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[GUITAR PLAYING]

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Know it sounds funny
But, I just can't stand the pain

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Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow

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Seems to me girl
You know I've done all I can

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You see I begged, stole and I borrowed! Yeah!

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Ooh, that's why I am easy.
Easy like Sunday morning

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That's why I'm easy.
Easy like Sunday morning