In its second and final round of funding, the UC Davis Office of Research has awarded ten additional COVID-19 Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT) grants to campus researchers who are developing projects in response to the pandemic. Funding is provided by the Office of Research and the Provost's office with matching support from schools and colleges.

(SACRAMENTO) — UC Davis experts share their expertise nationally and internationally in the care of pregnant mothers and newborns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some examples:

(SACRAMENTO) — Nearly two thirds of severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who received remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis improved, with no new concerns about safety reported during the short clinical study. 

Traffic accidents and crash-related injuries and deaths were reduced by half during the first three weeks of California’s shelter-in-place order, which began March 20. The reductions save the state an estimated $40 million per day — about $1 billion over the time period — according to an updated special report released this week from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis.

Tracking social media “sick posts” could give public health officials a head start on identifying and responding to emerging disease outbreaks, researchers at the University of California, Davis, suggest in a new working paper.

The hot-ticket event for campus a few Fridays ago turned out to be a virtual town hall hosted by the School of Medicine and the Office of Research. Within a minute of launching the Zoom meeting, attendance hit the capacity of 300, surprising the organizers.

(SACRAMENTO) — Throughout UC Davis Health, people have readily increased their workloads and intensity as they battle COVID-19 and one team drawing praise for both extreme hours and extreme helpfulness is the trio of young research coordinators in the UC Davis Division of Infectious Diseases.