COVID-19: Testing and Tracking Content

Vaccines Remain Important as Deadline Nears

Cody Kitaura — October 31, 2023 - 1:30pm

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 flu and COVID-19 shots approaches.

�ٺ��Ƶ COVID-19 Testing Moving to New Location

Cody Kitaura — June 28, 2022 - 10:11am

The campus’s COVID-19 testing center is moving, but it isn’t going far.

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 Human Resources Administration Building, on the newly renamed Blue Ridge Road.

COVID-19 Testing No Longer Required

Cody Kitaura — June 24, 2022 - 7:00am

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 Daily Symptom Survey, campus employees must still submit one every time they come to a university facility.

Omicron Variant Detected in More Areas of Yolo County

Karen Michele Nikos — December 22, 2021 - 1:00pm

The �ٺ��Ƶ 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.

Digging Deeper: Wastewater Testing and Air Monitoring

Andy Fell — September 24, 2021 - 7:30am

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.

Digging Deeper: Asymptomatic Testing for COVID-19

Andy Fell — September 24, 2021 - 7:30am

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, 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.

Video Added: ‘�ٺ��Ƶ LIVE’ on Testing Wastewater for COVID-19

Andy Fell — May 17, 2021 - 1:00pm

A Race Against the Virus: How �ٺ��Ƶ Health Created Its COVID-19 Test in 19 Days

Tanya H Perez — April 19, 2021 - 1:21pm

In January 2020, Nam Tran and his colleagues in the �ٺ��Ƶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine were scaling up testing platforms for seasonal influenza and the common cold.

Tran, a professor of clinical pathology in the �ٺ��Ƶ 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.

Detection of Coronavirus B.1.351 Variant Confirmed in Yolo County

mlblouin — April 06, 2021 - 10:00am

News release from Healthy Davis Together, issued today (April 6).

Through genotyping all positive samples as part of Healthy Davis Together’s free community COVID-19 test operations, the �ٺ��Ƶ Genome Center has identified the first known case of the B.1.351 variant of the virus SARS-CoV-2 in Yolo County.

Genome Sequencing Shows New Coronavirus Variants Drive Pandemic Surges

Andy Fell — April 01, 2021 - 8:18am

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 Scientific Reports.