HANOVER — Dartmouth College officials said this week that the majority of current COVID-19 cases on campus have occurred in people who have been vaccinated and that these cases have been mild or asymptomatic, a sign that the vaccines are doing their job. Nearly 95% of the Dartmouth community is vaccinated, officials said.
Dartmouth currently has 23 confirmed cases on campus, including 21 people who tested positive this week, according to the college’s COVID-19 dashboard on Friday.
Officials also announced a new leadership structure for Dartmouth’s COVID-19 response to replace the COVID-19 Task Force, which ended its work at the beginning of August.
Interim Provost David Kotz and Executive Vice President Rick Mills will lead the effort with help from four teams — a leadership group that finalizes policy changes; a core group of the original task force that manages day-to-day logistics; a testing group, which is being integrated into the Office of Environmental Health and Safety; and a science advisory group of clinical and research faculty from the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.