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Vaccine Myths on Social Media Can Be Effectively Reduced With Credible Fact Checking

Social media misinformation can negatively influence people’s attitudes about vaccine safety and effectiveness, but credible organizations — such as research universities and health institutions — can play a pivotal role in debunking myths with simple tags that link to factual information, University of California, Davis, researchers, suggest in a new study.

Researchers found that fact-check tags located immediately below or near a post can generate more positive attitudes toward vaccines than misinformation alone, and perceived source expertise makes a difference.

The Frightening Uncertainty of Long-Haul COVID-19

In February, when the world barely knew the name COVID-19, Marina Oshana had what she thought was the flu or some other bug.

“I’m an avid Jazzerciser. I love to dance. I was working out five or six days a week,” the UC Davis professor emerita of philosophy said on the Dec. 3 edition of UC Davis LIVE. “I noticed during the cardio portion of the class, I would get fatigued. It was very strange. It seemed to come on suddenly.”

New cotton mask kills 99.9% viruses, bacteria in an hour of sunlight, says study

A new cloth-based face mask has been developed by researchers that can kill up to 99.99 per cent of bacteria and viruses within 60 minutes of daylight exposure.

Reserachers have developed a reusable cotton face mask that can kill 99.9999 per cent of bacteria and viruses within an hour of exposure to sunlight, according to the study published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, news agency PTI reported. However, live bacteria and viruses on the surface of the mask could still be contagious.

Different types of COVID-19 tests explained

UC Davis Health is among the first in the nation to roll out a groundbreaking, highly accurate test that can check for both COVID-19 and flu viruses at the same time. It returns results in 20 minutes and the method of testing is considered the gold standard for coronavirus.

New Post-COVID-19 Clinic helps long-suffering long-haul patients

Rare combination of expert care and research

The region’s top experts in patient-focused pulmonary health will lead those multidisciplinary teams. A majority of long-haul COVID patients will experience a variety of respiratory symptoms but some may have more subtle symptoms that may require additional input from experts in cardiovascular, immunologic and neurologic medicine.

‘CRISPR and Coronavirus’: Hear From Nobel Winner Jennifer Doudna

The Office of Research and the School of Medicine had planned to introduce their Oct. 30 speaking guest as a professor and the founder and director of the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, and a CRISPR pioneer.

Since being booked for the Distinguished Speaker Series in Research and Innovation, however, Jennifer Doudna has added a new title: Nobel laureate.

What is an antibody cocktail and what trials are being done at UC Davis Health?

Q&A with Timothy Albertson on the antibodies President Trump received, clinical trials and the goals

Timothy Albertson, chair of internal medicine and specialist in pulmonary and critical care, is leading one of UC Davis Health’s two trials of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ antibody cocktail. He answers questions about the trials, the antibodies and how they might work.

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Can an antibody ‘cocktail’ prevent COVID-19 infection?

In a new COVID-19 clinical trial, UC Davis Health tests the same REGN-COV2 antibody combination given to President Trump

In a new clinical trial, UC Davis Health will test the effectiveness and safety of REGN-COV2, the monoclonal antibody cocktail, in preventing COVID-19 in adults living with infected patients. The drug was recently administered to President Donald Trump as part of his treatment for SAR-CoV-2 infection.

Grants Available for Research Impacted by COVID-19

In mid-March, researchers at UC Davis were asked to adjust or reduce their work when possible in order to limit social contact and minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus. This “ramp down” meant that some campus research was postponed.

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