COVID-19: Treatment and Recovery Content / COVID-19: Treatment and Recovery Content for ٺƵ en ‘Monumental Day’ at ٺƵ Health /coronavirus/news/monumental-day-at-uc-davis-health <p>ٺƵ Health today (Dec. 15) began inoculating its frontline health care workers against COVID-19, just hours after the vaccine arrived.</p> <p>Eva Teniola, a clinical nurse in the emergency department, was the first person at the ٺƵ Medical Center to receive the historic vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech.</p> <p>“See, we did it,” she exclaimed, throwing her arms wide with joy after her injection, as other employees broke out into applause around her. The 47-year-old said she signed up to get the vaccine the moment she learned it was going to be available.</p> December 15, 2020 - 12:37pm Cody Kitaura /coronavirus/news/monumental-day-at-uc-davis-health ٺƵ Health Joins Novavax in Testing a New COVID-19 Vaccine /news/uc-davis-health-joins-novavax-testing-new-covid-19-vaccine <p>Despite the encouraging news of potentially successful COVID-19 vaccine trials, there is not yet an FDA-approved vaccine available. Research into other effective coronavirus vaccines continues, including at ٺƵ Health.</p> December 07, 2020 - 12:33pm Andy Fell /news/uc-davis-health-joins-novavax-testing-new-covid-19-vaccine The ICU: Life-Saving Care During COVID-19 and Every Day /news/icu-life-saving-care-during-covid-19-and-every-day <p>Hospital Intensive care units, or ICUs, are exactly what they sound like: units that offer intensive patient care. ICU providers specialize in caring for the sickest people and have been critical to saving lives throughout the COVID-19 pandemic — at ٺƵ Health and across the country.</p> December 07, 2020 - 12:25pm Andy Fell /news/icu-life-saving-care-during-covid-19-and-every-day The Frightening Uncertainty of Long-Haul COVID-19 /coronavirus/news/coronavirus/news/frightening-uncertainty-long-haul-covid-19 <p>In February, when the world barely knew the name COVID-19, Marina Oshana had what she thought was the flu or some other bug.</p> <p>“I’m an avid Jazzerciser. I love to dance. I was working out five or six days a week,” the ٺƵ professor emerita of philosophy said on the Dec. 3 edition of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLslgisHe5tBP5-oI9keo2fGto0hEgyNAf"><em>ٺƵ LIVE</em></a>. “I noticed during the cardio portion of the class, I would get fatigued. It was very strange. It seemed to come on suddenly.”</p> December 07, 2020 - 7:21am Dave Jones /coronavirus/news/coronavirus/news/frightening-uncertainty-long-haul-covid-19 NIH Grant to Create Humanized Mice Susceptible to COVID-19 /news/nih-grant-create-humanized-mice-susceptible-covid-19 <p>The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant of $1.2 million to the Mouse Biology Program at the University of California, Davis, to create mice that are susceptible to the COVID-19 virus, and to distribute them to researchers.</p> <p>The goal is to create mice that can be used to reproduce human COVID-19 disease, said Kent Lloyd, director of the Mouse Biology Program and professor in the Department of Surgery at the ٺƵ School of Medicine.</p> August 03, 2020 - 1:36pm Andy Fell /news/nih-grant-create-humanized-mice-susceptible-covid-19 COVID-19 Vaccine With Patch Delivery Technology Enters Preclinical Testing at ٺƵ /coronavirus/news/covid-19-vaccine-patch-delivery-technology-enters-preclinical-testing-uc-davis <p><a href="https://www.verndariinc.com">Verndari Inc.</a>, a&nbsp;biopharmaceutical company, announced today (April 29) that it will begin preclinical testing this week at the University of California, Davis, Mouse Biology Program to evaluate a potential vaccine and delivery system for COVID-19.</p> April 29, 2020 - 4:49pm Andy Fell /coronavirus/news/covid-19-vaccine-patch-delivery-technology-enters-preclinical-testing-uc-davis ٺƵ Engineers, Clinician Develop Low-Cost, Portable Ventilator /coronavirus/news/uc-davis-engineers-clinician-develop-low-cost-portable-ventilator <p>Engineers at the University of California, Davis, are working with clinicians to create a simple, inexpensive ventilator. They have developed a prototype and plan to make plans freely available online. Versions could be in clinical use in about six months.</p> April 29, 2020 - 4:32pm Andy Fell /coronavirus/news/uc-davis-engineers-clinician-develop-low-cost-portable-ventilator ٺƵ Launches 2 Clinical Studies to Treat COVID-19 /coronavirus/news/uc-davis-launches-2-clinical-studies-treat-covid-19 <p>ٺƵ Health has two clinical trials underway for hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.</p> <p>The studies are evaluating the safety and effectiveness of two drugs — the investigational antiviral remdesivir, and sarilumab, a drug that blocks the body’s acute inflammatory response.</p> March 31, 2020 - 5:00pm Cody Kitaura /coronavirus/news/uc-davis-launches-2-clinical-studies-treat-covid-19 ٺƵ Engineers Respond to COVID-19 Challenges /coronavirus/news/uc-davis-engineers-respond-covid-19-challenges <p>Anticipating a scarcity of medical devices and a lack of treatment options for COVID-19, engineering&nbsp;researchers at the University of California, Davis, are investigating innovative technology to manufacture masks, ventilators and other critical equipment.</p> March 30, 2020 - 2:36pm Andy Fell /coronavirus/news/uc-davis-engineers-respond-covid-19-challenges Wellness Officer Shares Strategies to Cope with COVID-19 Uncertainty /coronavirus/news/wellness-officer-strategies-cope-covid-19-uncertainty <p><em>Peter Yellowlees, chief wellness officer at ٺƵ Health and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, sent this letter to the Sacramento campus today (March 12):</em></p> <p>It has been amazing to watch how incredibly professional and caring all ٺƵ Health staff have been over the past two weeks since the evolution of the COVID-19 outbreak, and our intimate involvement.</p> March 12, 2020 - 4:00pm Cody Kitaura /coronavirus/news/wellness-officer-strategies-cope-covid-19-uncertainty