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 ...

KCRA Sacramento: Gov. Newsom announces increased COVID-19 testing capacity in California
The governor announced a new partnership with UC Davis and UC San Diego to create several hubs that will increase COVID-19 testing capacity.
KPBS: Live Blog: WATCH LIVE: County Health Officials Will Provide An Update On COVID-19
Newsom Announces Plan To Significantly Expand COVID-19 Testing In ... The efforts include a collaboration with UC San Diego and UC Davis to ...
Washington Post: Live updates: New York coronavirus deaths surpass 3500; confirmed cases nationwide top 300000
... Newsom announced a state partnership with UC Davis and UC San Diego ... A total of 846 people in New Jersey have died of covid-19, the illness ...
KSBY San Luis Obispo News: Gov. Newsom announces increased COVID-19 testing capacity in California
KCRA reported the governor announced a new partnership with UC Davis and UC San Diego to create several hubs that will increase COVID-19 ...
SFist: Sunday Links: Newsom Announces New COVID-19 Testing Hubs
Gov. Newsom said during a press confrence Saturday that "five to seven" new coronavirus testing hubs — created in partnership with UC Davis and ...
KPBS: Watch Live: San Diego County Health Officials Give Update On COVID-19 Outbreak
The task force includes a collaboration with UC San Diego and UC Davis to establish testing hubs. -- Laura McVicker, KPBS Social Media Strategist.
Times of San Diego: San Diego County Coronavirus Developments on Saturday, April 4 Gavin Newsom announced that UC San Diego and UC Davis are ... Department and an inmate in a local jail have tested positive for COVID-19.
Los Angeles Blade: Newsom talks LGBT needs, statewide testing lapses
... by making more COVID-19 tests available. This will include partnerships with UC Davis and UC San Diego in an effort to establish regional hubs.
Jefferson Public Radio: California Significantly Reduces COVID-19 Testing Backlog, Works To Increase Capacity
Newsom introduced a new partnership with UC Davis and UC San Diego to create a minimum of five testing “hubs” up and down the state “to ...
CALmatters: Newsom: I have a responsibility to do better
... with UC San Diego and UC Davis; A Stanford University test that determines if someone has developed an immune response to COVID-19 and can ...
FOX40: Gov. Newsom names UC Davis as regional testing partner for COVID-19
Gavin Newsom has named University of California, Davis Health as one of the state's partners in establishing regional testing hubs for the COVID-19 ...
KPBS: WATCH: Governor Newsom To Provide Update On State's Coronavirus Response
Scripps Health Launches Five-Minute COVID-19 Test ... For COVID-19, the platform looks for the novel coronavirus RdRp gene in ... The task force includes a collaboration with UC San Diego and UC Davis to establish testing hubs.
Governing: California Lags Behind National COVID-19 Testing Average
California Lags Behind National COVID-19 Testing Average ... task force announced by Newsom includes officials from UC San Diego and 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.

BBC.com News: Coronavirus: Exploiting nature 'drives outbreaks of new diseases'
come into closer contact with people," Dr Christine Johnson of the University of California, Davis, US, told BBC News,...
ABC News: Deforestation isn't just an environmental problem. It's a public health crisis.
for Disease Dynamics at the One Health Institute, a program of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. MORE: Coronavirus map:......
CNN-US: A real life 'Contagion': Humans may be to blame for viruses jumping from animals to usJohnson, a professor of epidemiology and wildlife health at the University of California, Davis. "The reason why we did...
Time Magazine: Want to Stop the Next Pandemic? Start Protecting Wildlife Habitats
led by Christine Kreuder Johnson of the One Health Institute at University of California, Davis. Almost half of the new...
Newsweek: Risk of Virus Spillover From Animals to Humans Increases Through Wildlife Exploitation and Domestication
market. University of California, Davis Dead bats for sale hang in an Indonesian market. University of...
San Francisco Chronicle: As humans take animals’ territory, greater risk of contagions like coronavirus being transmitted
the landscape in major ways.” Johnson and her colleagues at UC Davis and the Melbourne Veterinary School in Australia examined...
The Washington Post: The mystery of how a tiger caught covid-19 has experts chasing their tails
in New York, a study released Tuesday by the University of California at Davis explored a broader problem related to...
Patch.com: UC Davis: The Link Between Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be connected to environmental change? Yes, indicates a study ...
Popular Science: We probably won't see the next COVID-19 coming
Late in 2019, the virus that causes COVID-19 created its first documented cases among several dozen people connected to an outdoor market in ...

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

Patch.com: UC Davis Researchers Launch New Coronavirus Tracking Application
UC Davis Researchers Launch New Coronavirus Tracking Application. The app offers a simple, intuitive way for users to track COVID-19 data at the ...
The Aggie: UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine develops COVID-19 website app
The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and CalSurv, a computer-generated disease outbreak monitoring system, cooperated to generate an ...

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 California, Davis.

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.

Woodland Daily Democrat: UC Davis physicians and researchers speed up COVID-19 testing
UC Davis physicians and researchers speed up COVID-19 testing. Academic medical center in unique position to benefit patients in the Sacramento ...
Rocklin & Roseville Today: UC Davis COVID-19 Testing Ramp Up
UC Davis Health's Clinical Laboratory began internal testing March 19 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assays (tests to ...

Older UC Davis Press Release (4/2): How Important Is Speech in Transmitting Coronavirus?
... 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, ...

Forbes: If Coronavirus Is Airborne, Beware Loud Talkers And 'Superemitters'
... might be adequate to transmit COVID-19,” reads a new editorial in Aerosol Science and Technology by researchers from UC-Davis and the Icahn ...
The Online Citizen SG: Scientists warn normal speech by asymptomatic individuals can infect others with COVID-19
Researchers at UC Davis published an article in the Journal of Aerosol Science & Technology last Thu (26 Mar) pointing out that normal speech by ...
ZME Science: Can the coronavirus spread through speech?
Dissecting the modes of contagion for the COVID-19 is, however, ... professor of chemical engineering at UC Davis, published a paper showing that ...
FOX40: UC Davis: COVID-19 can be transmitted through talking
UC Davis chemical engineering professor William Ristenpart studies microscopic aerosol particles produced in the lining of the lungs.
LiveScience: COVID-19 may spread through breathing and talking — but we don't know how much
people speak, said William Ristenpart, a professor of chemical engineering at University of California, Davis. "We just...
FOX 40: UC Davis: COVID-19 can be transmitted through talking
But those precautions might not be enough to stop transmission through normal conversation, according to research coming out of the University...

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

BioSpace (press release) (blog): Research Roundup: Analysis of the 1st US Community-Transmitted COVID-19 Case and More
She was admitted to UC Davis with a respiratory infection. ... They suspected COVID-19, but because the CDC guidelines at the time cited travel to ...

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 California, Davis, ...

The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Monday Morning Thoughts: Science Will Have to Get Us out of this COVID-19 Mess
In a release from last Monday, UC Davis reported, “Anticipating a scarcity of medical devices and a lack of treatment options for COVID-19, ...

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

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute: UC Davis researchers rushing to develop new treatments to stop corononavirus spread
UC Davis doctors and researchers are rushing to develop treatments that will stop the ...

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 California, Davis, 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 California, Davis, 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

khqa.com: How to take off disposable gloves properly amid COVID-19 pandemic
How to take off disposable gloves properly amid COVID-19 pandemic ... Jeff Sherman, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. David Lubarsky

The New York Times: Delays and Shortages Exacerbate Coronavirus Testing Gaps in the US
At UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Dr. David Lubarsky, the health system's ... be tested who presents with symptoms that suggests they have Covid-19,” Dr. ... Dr. Lubarsky said UC Davis was working on developing new tests that ...
KCRA Sacramento: Q&A: When COVID-19 cases could surge in California
CEO of UC Davis Health talks about possible COVID-19 surge. Lubarsky talked with KCRA 3's Emily Mahe about how California flattened its curve: Q: ...

Nam Tran

Slate Magazine: Why the Coronavirus Test Gives So Many False Negatives
In the case of COVID-19 testing, some misdiagnoses could come from lab issues. ... Nam Tran, an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Davis. COVID-19 is primarily a disease of the lungs, but it also hangs out in the ...
The Mercury News: Could a blood test for coronavirus antibodies get California back to normal? Lots of questions remain
, associate professor and senior director of clinical pathology at University of California, Davis, said his team is...
Daily Mail Online: False negative coronavirus tests could be due to how healthcare workers are collecting samples, as the virus may be in a cavity swabs cannot reach
to reach. Nam Tran, an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Davis, told Slate.com: ‘There’s a...

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

The Scientist: Scientists Around the Globe Pivot Their Research to SARS-CoV-2
In early March, Chris Miller, a virologist at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis (UCD), received a call ...

Jeff Sherman, a psychology professor

Associated Press: Hidden suffering of coronavirus: Stigma, blaming, shaming
“Illness is one of the fundamental fears humans have been dealing with their entire evolution,” said Jeff Sherman, a psychology professor at...

Eric Rauchway, history professor

The Huffington Post: Comparing Trump’s Coronavirus Response To Herbert Hoover’s Great Depression Failure
is being compared to Hoover’s incompetence. HuffPost asked University of California-Davis history professor Eric Rauchway…to talk about the comparisons between Trump and Hoover...

Paul D. Hastings, a professor of psychology

The Sacramento Bee: With prom, sports and graduation canceled, teens’ struggle with coronavirus is real
for all of us. Paul D. Hastings, a professor of psychology at UC Davis, said the feeling of loss for teens is real and makes...

Dr. Tom Suchanek

The Union of Grass Valley: NC Media: COVID-19 and climate change, two sides of the same coin
Dr. Tom Suchanek from UC Davis and Dana Nuccitelli of Yale Climate Connections and author of Climatology vs. Pseudoscience will discuss the ...

Jane Sykes, chief veterinary medical officer

Capital Public Radio News: Statewide Coronavirus Update / Animals And COVID-19 / Homemade Face Masks
... UC Davis Professor of Small Animal Medicine Dr. Jane Sykes discusses the prospects that COVID-19 is transferable between animals and humans ...
Capital Public Radio News: Animals And COVID-19 Susceptibility
Today we take a look at the relationship between animals and coronavirus. Guests. UC Davis Professor of Zoological Medicine and Head Veterinarian at ...
Boston Herald: Pet owners need not panic after tiger’s positive coronavirus test
not panic,” Dr. Jane Sykes, an administrator at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine said...
Mikwaukee Journal Sentinel: Cats are far more susceptible to new coronavirus than dogs are, but people shouldn't be 'fearful' of their pets, researchers say
. Jane Sykes, a professor of small animal medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine,......

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

Forbes: The New World: How The World Will Be Different After COVID-19
Column by Suzy Taherian, adjunct professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Fraser Shilling and David Waetjen

Los Angeles Times: On streets emptied by coronavirus, L.A. officials crack down on speeding
home orders, according to a study by Fraser Shilling and David Waetjen of UC Davis. But peak speeds, defined as the 95th...
Popular Science: The real reason we’re seeing more wildlife during the pandemic
Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at University of California, Davis, identified that only about half of...

George Thompson, an infectious disease specialist

LiveScience: Treatments for COVID-19: Drugs being tested against the coronavirus
's remdesivir." George Thompson, an infectious disease specialist at UC Davis Medical Center who treated an early, severe case of......

Dr. Dean Blumberg

KCRA Sacramento: COVID-19: Why patient recovery data is scarce
Dr. Dean Blumberg of UC Davis Health said that until recently, we've had limited testing for COVID-19. A lot of people with mild symptoms or no ...
Slate: Wait, Should My Kid Be Wearing a Mask Too?
And the younger a child is, notes Dean Blumberg, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at UC–Davis, “the more likely they will be to...

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

The Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus Crisis Legacy: Mountains of Debt
out,” says Alan Taylor, an economist and historian at the University of California Davis, who has studied the economic...

Daniel Sumner, UC Davis professor of agricultural economics

Los Angeles Times: Why are eggs getting so expensive? Blame coronavirus demand
variable products in the supermarket,” said Daniel Sumner, UC Davis professor of agricultural economics and director of the UC...

Paul Knoepfler, stem cell biologist

The Scientist Magazine: Are Mesenchymal Stem Cells a Promising Treatment for COVID-19?
-19 patients.” Stem cell biologist Paul Knoepfler of the University of California, Davis, writes in an email to The...

David Siegel, emeritus professor of medicine

New York Times: LETTERS: Trump’s Advocacy of Unproven Drug for Coronavirus
Letter to the editor from David Siegel, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of California Davis School of Medicine.

Peter Yellowlees, a professor of clinical psychiatry

Politico: America’s having a nervous breakdown. Can telemedicine fix it?
Yellowlees, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, Davis and former president of the...

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

KCRA.com: Californians breathe cleaner air during stay-at-home order
“It’s super-duper clean,” said Professor Anthony Wexler, director of UC Davis’ Air Quality Research Center. The cleaner air is...