The virus is dying down now, and Covenant Facilities put a team together to sanitize door handles on an hourly basis and clean bathrooms of the ill students. Chartwells has worked hard to keep everything clean and according to health code.

Last week, four Covenant College students spent the night in the Erlanger Emergency Room due to a gastrointestinal virus that suddenly hit campus. As of Friday at 4 p.m., 58 students on and off campus showed signs of the same illness. Reasons for the virus are yet to be determined, although the Georgia Health Department is currently running tests to find the cause.

“Joe texted me at 8:30 asking if I could take him down to the ER,” said sophomore Jonathan Leverett, who did not get sick but spent Wednesday night in the ER with his roommate, Joe Riddle. “He had already vomited nine times.”

When the two arrived at Erlanger, senior Kaia Moore was there with fellow senior Rashad Gober, who had symptoms similar to Riddle. Several hours later, two more Covenant students arrived with the same illness. Riddle did not get helped until 3 a.m., but was finally set up to an IV and was discharged at 6 a.m. Gober had to spend 17 hours at the hospital due to dehydration.

“Since we were all in the ER together for so long, we got to talking and found out that everyone had gotten sick from 3 to 5 p.m. that day,” said Leverett.

Carter RD Adam Porcella was on duty that night, and began receiving calls from students all across campus around 6 p.m. By the end of the night, 12 students had reported sick, all between 3 and 10 p.m.

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