COVID-19 Protocols

To ensure our YSC community remains as safe as possible, we’ve prepared some health and sickness guidelines for the 2026 YSC summit. YSC prioritizes the health and safety of our community above all else, and we know you do too!

 

Please read the following sickness protocols carefully and follow them throughout the event. This includes COVID-19, flu, viruses and any other contagious illnesses:

  • Testing: It is recommended that all attendees take a COVID-19 test 24 hours or less before your Summit arrival. If you test positive, please stay home and rest!
  • Vaccinations: While we will not ask for proof of vaccination, YSC strongly encourages all Summit participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including eligible booster shots.
  • Masking: Masks are not required, but you may want to consider wearing one in crowded spaces or if you are currently immunocompromised. We will provide a supply of masks in the registration area, as well as hand sanitizing stations.

Please not that YSC will be following health trends carefully in the days leading up to the YSC Wellness Summit. We reserve the right to change the sickness safety protocols, so that we are taking various infection rates and spread (included COVID-19) into account. All registrants will be notified of changes in advance of their arrival.

 


 

Testing Recommendations:

Everyone who plans to be onsite for the Summit should test for COVID-19 before arriving using an at-home or lab-based antigen test*.

You are welcome to bring additional tests for the duration of your stay. Should you test positive onsite, see information below.

 


 

If you test positive while onsite:

  • Contact a YSC staff person immediately at (516-268-6706).

 


 

Other scenarios on site:

  • You are testing negative for COVID-19, but you feel ill or have a fever related to ANY illness: do NOT come to the YSC Wellness Summit and the event site. If you begin to feel ill onsite, contact the designated YSC staff person (516-268-6706).
  • If someone in your household has tested positive for COVID-19 within 5 days of arrival – do NOT come to the Summit and the event site.

 

Thank you for your cooperation as we all prepare to be together for this incredible event! See you in New Orleans!