UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 4/6)

UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 4/6)
 

Press Releases and News Outlet Pickups

UC Davis Press Release (4/3): Checking In With Chancellor May: A Remarkable Week
A paper by Angela Haczku and Michael Schivo (UC Davis Health) describing their treatment of the first patient in the United States to contract COVID-19 ...

UC Davis Press Release (4/7): UC Davis Health Joins State on Testing
Nam Tran, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and senior director of clinical pathology in charge of COVID-19 testing at UC Davis ...

UC Davis Press Release (4/7): The Link Between Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can ... One Health Institute, a program of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

UC Davis Press Release (4/8): UC Davis Researchers Launch New COVID-19 Tracking Application
Researchers at the University of CaliforniaDavis, have developed a new web application that allows users to track COVID-19 cases and testing ...

UC Davis Magazine (4/8): UC Davis Researchers Tackle COVID-19
Clinical pathologists, infectious disease physicians and scientists at the UC Davis Medical Center, School of Medicine, California National Primate ...

UC Davis Press Release (4/10): COVID-19 and the Built Environment
... gather and in their homes as we try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. ... and Immunology, School of Medicine, at the University of CaliforniaDavis.

Older UC Davis Health Press Release (4/3): UC Davis Health speeds up COVID-19 testing
UC Davis ramps up COVID-19 testing with the region's only machine built for high-volume testing for patients of UC Davis Health.

Older UC Davis Press Release (4/2): How Important Is Speech in Transmitting Coronavirus?
... according to aerosol scientists at the University of CaliforniaDavis. Although it's not yet known how important this is to the spread of COVID-19, ...

Older UC Davis Health Press Release (3/30): Solving a medical mystery and changing CDC screenings for COVID-19

Older UC Davis Press Release (3/30): UC Davis Engineers Respond to COVID-19 Challenges
Anticipating a scarcity of medical devices and a lack of treatment options for COVID-19, engineering researchers at the University of CaliforniaDavis, ...

Older UC Davis Press Release (3/19): UC Davis Researchers Race to Develop Coronavirus Solutions


Other UC Davis Research and Research Studies in the News

'Essential' but Unprotected, Farmworkers Live in Fear of Covid-19 but Keep Working
InsideClimate News
"My fear is that once Covid-19 enters the farmworker population, it will be very difficult ... and Safety (WCAHS) at the University of CaliforniaDavis, which is investigating the health consequences of extreme weather on farm workers.

Coronavirus hit California’s cut-flower industry at the worst time
Los Angeles Times
for three quarters of the national domestic sales, according to the UC Davis researchers. Trade deals that favored Andean nations......

COVID-19 - Animal Experiments on Monkeys Infected with Virus Begin at California's UC Davis
City Watch
The California National Primate Research Center told The Scientist that the facility has a population of 4,000 rhesus macaques and 100 titi monkeys, ...
... virus behind COVID-19 -- although they develop different symptoms -- so experiments are beginning at the University of California Davis, "to prevent ...

Northern California hospital is approved as site for coronavirus drug trial
Sacramento Bee
A North Coast hospital is testing the experimental drug that UC Davis ... the antiviral drug Remdesivir to treat moderate and severe cases of COVID-19, ...

Eureka hospital testing drug that could fight COVID-19 drug
Woodland Daily Democrat
... acquire COVID-19 in the U.S. through community spread. She survived the ordeal. The drug was developed by UC Davis doctors and researchers, ...

World Economy Faces $5 Trillion Hit That Is Like Losing Japan
Bloomberg
long time if history is a guide. Research from the University of CaliforniaDavis, shows that previous outbreaks tend to......

The internet says you should use soap to clean your groceries. Don’t listen.
Los Angeles Times
wash produce with soap; a peer-reviewed publication from UC Davis explains that antibacterial soap and dish detergent residues can......

Smithsonian Scientists Discover Six New Coronaviruses in Bats
Smithsonian’s National Zoo
The PREDICT team in Myanmar consists of scientists from the Smithsonian; the University of California, Davis; Myanmar’s Ministry of Agriculture,...

How to Save Money on Your Car Insurance During Coronavirus — and Beyond
Money
According to a University of California-Davis study, the number of collisions and injuries related to car accidents has dropped in half in California...

COVID-19 patient enrolled in clinical trial released from UC Davis Medical Center, expected to
FOX40
(KTXL) — A COVID-19 patient who was undergoing a special trial treatment at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento has been released and is ...

Coronavirus resources for Yolo County's agricultural community
Woodland Daily Democrat
... follow guidelines from the UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety which can be found at https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/covid19.

 

UC Davis Researchers and Experts Providing Insight

Jeff Sherman, a psychology professor

Dr. David Lubarsky

Nam Tran

Chris Miller, a virologist at the California National Primate Research Center

Jeff Sherman, a psychology professor

Eric Rauchway, history professor

Paul D. Hastings, a professor of psychology

Dr. Tom Suchanek

Jane Sykes, chief veterinary medical officer

Suzy Taherian, adjunct professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Fraser Shilling and David Waetjen

George Thompson, an infectious disease specialist

Dr. Dean Blumberg

William Dager, PharmD, BCPS

  • Infectious Disease Special Edition: Abnormal Clotting and COVID-19
    In a March 11 paper in Lancet involving 191 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, Dr. ... in Sacramento, and a clinical professor of medicine at UC Davis School of ... In a case series of 21 critically ill patients with COVID-19 in Washington ...

Alan Taylor, an economist and historian

Daniel Sumner, UC Davis professor of agricultural economics

Paul Knoepfler, stem cell biologist

David Siegel, emeritus professor of medicine

Peter Yellowlees, a professor of clinical psychiatry

Anthony Wexler, director of UC Davis’ Air Quality Research Center

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