COVID-19 Information

COVID-19 is a highly infectious, life-threatening disease declared by the World Health Organization to be a global pandemic. It can be difficult to control the spread of COVID-19 or to determine whether, where or how a specific individual may have been exposed due to its highly contagious nature. Attendees of Convention 2022 voluntarily assume the risk of exposure to COVID-19 during the event or during travels and acknowledge that such exposure or infection is not the responsibility of Zeta Tau Alpha.

Attendees agree to provide one of the following:

• Proof of COVID-19 vaccination, showing the individual will arrive at the conference at least 14 days removed from their final non-booster dose.
• Proof of a negative COVID-19 diagnostic test results taken within 72 hours of the day of arrival at the event. Tests (PCR or antigen) must generate a third-party test result that also shows the attendee’s name. At-home tests do not qualify.
• Proof of a positive COVID-19 test result taken no more than 90 days prior and no later than 14 days prior to the day of arrival at the event. Tests (PCR or antigen) must generate a third-party test result that also shows the attendee’s name.

Each attendee must upload proof of vaccination or test results via CrowdPass, an online event clearance app, that participants will be given access to in May 2022.

Attendees agree to take whatever precautions are deemed appropriate by Zeta Tau Alpha (and/or local venues) during Convention preparation to ensure the safety of themselves and others while attending Convention. Anyone who is unwilling or unable to adhere to the guidelines should not register for International Convention. Refunds will not be given after June 1, 2022.

ZTA will continue to monitor, update, and communicate safety precautions for conference attendees who will travel to Texas, and will use national, state, and local public health guidelines to assist us in the continued conference planning and in making any necessary revisions to these COVID-19 guidelines.

 

COVID-19 FAQs

Please read through our Covid-19 FAQ to minimize risk during your experience in 2022.

Does Texas prohibit COVID-19 vaccine mandates?

Our guidelines do not include a vaccine mandate, as they offer two additional attendance options other than showing proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

Are masks required?

Masks are optional for attendees.

What if an attendee develops symptoms on-site?

Attendees must act in accordance with CDC guidelines surrounding isolation or quarantine. Any additional costs associated with the need to isolate or quarantine are the individual’s responsibility.

What if an attendee develops symptoms prior to arrival?

Should any attendee develop symptoms or test positive for COVID-19 within 14 days of their arrival to the conference, they should consult their physician and stay home.

How secure is my vaccination/test result information on CrowdPass?

Data security is one of CrowdPass’ top priorities. CrowdPass has partnered with two amazing companies to ensure the highest level of security for all of its clients and event attendees: MedStack and Securicy.

MedStack is a HIPAA-compliant platform that delivers built-in privacy and security protocols that cover all typical healthcare industry practices on personal data, such as encryption, certificate and key management, backups, monitoring and logging. With MedStack’s secure solution, CrowdPass can safely host attendees’ health screening process as well as store medical data from the contact-tracing period (28 days) until the disposal period (after 28 days). Therefore, all the information collected from each user will only be accessed internally for health-screening purposes and contact-tracing purposes.

CrowdPass also uses Securicy for constant quality control of system security. Securicy is an information security management platform for businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. The Securicy platform uses industry-leading best practices to generate information security policies for our web application and automatically create implementation tasks. They frequently audit CrowdPass with strategies including penetration tests to evaluate security levels and provide tools, resources, and advice for building and maintaining security compliance.

Find more information on CrowdPass’s website.