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.

Hundreds of researchers attended the first two COVID-19 Research Virtual Town Halls, which are being held weekly via Zoom.

And this week brings the new FacultyConnect Zoom gathering, a weekly opportunity for faculty members to reflect upon and share their experiences with remote instruction. The meetups, organized by the Center for Educational Effectiveness, will be from 12:10 to 1 p.m. Thursdays starting April 16.

Social distancing has Americans mostly out of the places they usually gather and in their homes as we try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But some buildings, such as hospitals and grocery stores, have to remain open, and at some point, most of us will go back to the office or workplace. What is the role of building design in disease transmission, and can we change how we design the built environment to make it healthier?

The information surge in the COVID-19 pandemic has been almost as overwhelming as the surge occurring in medical facilities. While staying informed as well as being up to date on the latest technology is important, it’s also crucial to be cautious in your use of all this technology, University of California, Davis, experts advise.

The UC Davis Office of Research has awarded ten 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.

UC Davis physicians and scientists are studying COVID-19 across fields of expertise.

At the medical center, physicians treated the first known patient with community-acquired coronavirus in the U.S. in February.

The case highlighted significant knowledge gaps in the diagnosis and management of COVID-19. It also led to changes in the Center for Disease Control’s guidelines for testing.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a new web application that allows users to track COVID-19 cases and testing across the globe. The app offers a simple, intuitive way for users to track COVID-19 data at the country, state and county level.

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be connected to environmental change? Yes, indicates a study published today from the University of California, Davis’ One Health Institute.

After steadily increasing its own coronavirus testing capacity, UC Davis Health is now collaborating with the state to quickly and significantly boost California’s testing capacity, as announced Saturday (April 4) by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Dean Allison Brashear of the UC Davis School of Medicine said the university “is pleased to partner with Gov. Newsom on this important effort to increase testing capacity for Northern Californians.”

(SACRAMENTO) —

UC Davis Health is honored to be part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 Testing Task Force, a public-private collaboration to more quickly increase coronavirus testing capacity.

(SACRAMENTO) — Clinical pathologists, infectious disease physicians and scientists at UC Davis Health are collaborating on new reagents (substances used for chemical analysis), diagnostic tests and a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus in hopes of preventing and ultimately treating the infection.

The economy could be suffering the effects of the coronavirus for decades, suggest economists at the University of California, Davis, who researched the financial effects of pandemics dating back to the 14th century. “If the trends play out similarly in the wake of COVID-19 — adjusted to the scale of this pandemic — the global economic trajectory will be very different than was expected only a few weeks ago,” the authors wrote in a working paper published this week

Normal speech by individuals who are asymptomatic but infected with coronavirus may produce enough aerosolized particles to transmit the infection, according to aerosol scientists at the University of California, Davis. Although it’s not yet known how important this is to the spread of COVID-19, it underscores the need for strict social distancing measures — and for virologists, epidemiologists and engineers who study aerosols and droplets to work together on this and other respiratory diseases.