COVID-19: Testing and Tracking Content / COVID-19: Testing and Tracking Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Vaccines Remain Important as Deadline Nears /news/vaccines-remain-important-deadline-nears <p>Campus physicians are reiterating the importance of current vaccinations as the rate of COVID-19 detected in campus wastewater spikes and the Dec. 1 deadline for&nbsp;<a href="https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/testing-response/flu-vaccination">flu</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/covid-vaccination">COVID-19</a>&nbsp;shots approaches.</p> October 31, 2023 - 1:30pm Cody Kitaura /news/vaccines-remain-important-deadline-nears ºÙºÙÊÓƵ COVID-19 Testing Moving to New Location /news/uc-davis-covid-19-testing-moving-new-location <p><span><span>The campus’s COVID-19 testing center is moving, but it isn’t going far.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>After conducting more than a million tests there, the testing operation will leave the Activities and Recreation Center next week and move across the street to the <a href="http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?b=87">Human Resources Administration Building</a>, on the <a href="https://taps.ucdavis.edu/news/street-name-change-orchard-blue-ridge-road">newly renamed Blue Ridge Road</a>. </span></span></p> June 28, 2022 - 10:11am Cody Kitaura /news/uc-davis-covid-19-testing-moving-new-location COVID-19 Testing No Longer Required /news/covid-19-testing-no-longer-required <p><span><span>Your routine for coming to campus gets a little simpler today: Regular COVID-19 testing is no longer required, although it is still available on a voluntary basis. And while students are no longer required to complete the <a href="https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/symptom-survey">Daily Symptom Survey</a>, campus employees must still submit one every time they come to a university facility.</span></span></p> June 24, 2022 - 7:00am Cody Kitaura /news/covid-19-testing-no-longer-required Omicron Variant Detected in More Areas of Yolo County /news/omicron-variant-detected-more-areas-yolo-county The ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Genome Center has detected and confirmed an additional 42 cases of the B.1.1.529 (omicron) variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in Yolo County, specifically in Davis, El Macero, West Sacramento and Woodland. The Genome Center had previously detected only two omicron cases, both in West Sacramento. The variant has also been detected in trace amounts in the city of Davis’ sewage through Healthy Davis Together’s wastewater monitoring initiative. December 22, 2021 - 1:00pm Karen Michele Nikos /news/omicron-variant-detected-more-areas-yolo-county Digging Deeper: Asymptomatic Testing for COVID-19 /covid-19/testing-tracking/asymptomatic-testing-covid-19 <p>Early in the pandemic it became evident that widespread testing would be a vital tool to control COVID-19. People infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, &nbsp;can shed the virus and infect others for some days before they become sick. It’s not enough to isolate people with fever and a cough: you need to catch them before they even know they are sick. Additionally, more than half of infected, and therefore infectious, people never have symptoms or know that they are sick.</p> September 24, 2021 - 7:30am Andy Fell /covid-19/testing-tracking/asymptomatic-testing-covid-19 Digging Deeper: Wastewater Testing and Air Monitoring /covid-19/testing-tracking/wastewater-testing-and-air-monitoring <p><span><span><span>How can we watch for flare-ups of COVID-19 as the pandemic continues but infection rates decrease? The answers could be in wastewater and in the air. </span></span></span></p> September 24, 2021 - 7:30am Andy Fell /covid-19/testing-tracking/wastewater-testing-and-air-monitoring Video Added: ‘ºÙºÙÊÓƵ LIVE’ on Testing Wastewater for COVID-19 /covid-19/news/media-advisory-uc-davis-live-testing-wastewater-covid-19 <div> <div class="align- url-embed"> <div class="responsive-embed"></div> </div> <div slot="column1"> <p>&nbsp;</p></div></div> May 17, 2021 - 1:00pm Andy Fell /covid-19/news/media-advisory-uc-davis-live-testing-wastewater-covid-19 A Race Against the Virus: How ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Health Created Its COVID-19 Test in 19 Days /news/race-against-virus-how-uc-davis-health-created-its-covid-19-test-19-days <p>In January 2020,&nbsp;Nam Tran&nbsp;and his colleagues in the ºÙºÙÊÓƵ&nbsp;Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine&nbsp;were scaling up testing platforms for seasonal influenza and the common cold.</p> <p>Tran, a professor of clinical pathology in the ºÙºÙÊÓƵ School of Medicine, was following reports out of China about a mysterious new respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2. Not much was known at the time about how the novel coronavirus spread or what the mortality rate was.</p> April 19, 2021 - 1:21pm Tanya H Perez /news/race-against-virus-how-uc-davis-health-created-its-covid-19-test-19-days Detection of Coronavirus B.1.351 Variant Confirmed in Yolo County /news/detection-coronavirus-b1351-variant-confirmed-yolo-county <div> <p><em>News release from Healthy Davis Together, issued today (April 6).</em></p> </div> <hr> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Through genotyping all positive samples as part of Healthy Davis Together’s free community COVID-19 test operations, the ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Genome Center has identified the first known case of the B.1.351 variant of the virus SARS-CoV-2 in </span></span></span><span><span><span>Yolo County</span></span></span><span><span><span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> April 06, 2021 - 10:00am mlblouin /news/detection-coronavirus-b1351-variant-confirmed-yolo-county Genome Sequencing Shows New Coronavirus Variants Drive Pandemic Surges /news/genome-sequencing-shows-new-coronavirus-variants-drive-pandemic-surges <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Genome sequencing of thousands of SARS-CoV-2 samples shows that surges of COVID-19 cases are driven by the appearance of new coronavirus variants, according to new research from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, published April 1 in <a href="https://rdcu.be/chTpr">Scientific Reports</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> April 01, 2021 - 8:18am Andy Fell /news/genome-sequencing-shows-new-coronavirus-variants-drive-pandemic-surges