Scientists from the University of California, Davis are conducting a survey to learn about the impacts of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak that began early in 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented impacts on the lives of people all over the world. This team of researchers would like to understand more about how the Coronavirus and the related shelter-in-place (lockdown) measures have affected you and your family. Collecting this information will be critical for understanding current anxieties, needs, and challenges as well as allow us to determine factors that might influence susceptibility to this virus, potentially to other viruses, and later health outcomes. Changes will also be evaluated over time.

In the future, the study hopes to be able to collect biological specimens that can later be tested for antibodies to the COVID-19 virus that combined with responses to this survey, will help to determine factors that relate to COVID-19 status, the full range of symptoms, and the prevalence in our local community.

Very little is known about effects of pandemics of this scale on survivors. But we do know it’s important for communities to find out so they can come up with better ways to be better prepared for and to respond to future pandemics or health problems that might arise.

If you were directly or indirectly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, please complete this survey for yourself and other members of your household.  It takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes to complete.  More information and the the survey itself can be found here.