UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 5/4)
Press Releases and News Outlet Pickups
UC Davis Press Release (5/5): COVID-19 'LIVE' Series Debuts May 7
UC Davis is launching two new series that take a deep dive into how our researchers are meeting the challenge of COVID-19. They will explore how ...
- Patch.com: UC Davis: Coronavirus 'Live' Series Debuts May 7 'Deans Discuss' Podcast Launches Later In Month
UC Davis COVID-19 Live will debut this week with guests Prasant Mohapatra, vice chancellor for research; Allison Brashear, dean of the School of ...
UC Davis Press Release (5/5): Ross Among Panelists to Discuss COVID-19 Impacts on Food Supply Chain
The head of California's Department of Food and Agriculture, researchers from the University of California, Davis, and food purveyors will tackle these ...
- Patch.com: UC Davis: Ross Among Panelists To Discuss Coronavirus Impacts On Food Supply Chain
Why is milk being dumped and produce left to rot in fields while grocery store shelves go empty during the COVID-19 pandemic? Why are grocery ...
UC Davis Press Release (5/8): Spring Quarter Snapshot: Research Continues into COVID-19
Much of the state may be shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, but research at UC Davis is continuing. “Our researchers are actively engaged ...
UC Davis Press Release (5/8): Undersecretary Replaces Ross for Discussion About COVID-19 Impacts on Food Supply Chain
UC Davis invites the public to attend “Food Shortages in a Pandemic” over the web through Zoom conferencing. To do so, register online at least 48 ...
Older UC Davis Press Release (5/1): Checking In With Chancellor May: Signs of Hope
By working together with us at UC Davis, we can potentially help to address this global pandemic sooner rather than later.” In other COVID-19 research ...
Older UC Davis Press Release (5/1): As Americans Shelter in Place, Traffic, Emissions and Fuel-Tax Revenues Decline Dramatically
The report, “Impact of COVID19 Mitigation on Traffic, Fuel Use and Climate Change” is available on the UC Davis Road Ecology Center website.
- The People’s Vanguard of Davis: COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts Could Put US on Track to Meet Paris Climate Accord Goals
By Kat Kerli originally published by UC Davis News. Americans drove drastically less, saved millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases, and, in some ... - KQED: Coronavirus Live Updates
The order is likely to be the first in the state requiring universal testing for COVID-19 in nursing homes. ... The latest in a series of UC Davis studies on the transportation impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-at-home ... - Sierra Sun Times: UC Davis Reports As Americans Shelter in Place, Traffic, Emissions and Fuel-Tax Revenues ...
The higher the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths reported in a state, the fewer miles driven there. New York carried the highest rate of cases during ... - Wired: Covid-19 Spurs a Road Repair Boom—and Threatens a Bust
, too, is headed for a budgetary crunch: A new report out of UC Davis estimates the state is losing out on $46 million a week in... - KCRT: Study Finds Staying at Home Helps Climate, Hurts Economy, and Shows What’s Possible for Change
-tax revenue – including an estimated $370 million in California, a UC Davis study released Friday said. How state lawmakers will...... - CBS San Francisco: Coronavirus Update: Emissions Dip Drastically During Shelter-In-Place, UC Davis Study Finds
all those tailpipes off the roads. Researchers at the University of California, Davis found that driving has declined by...... - Phys.Org: COVID-19 mitigation efforts could put US on track to meet Paris Climate Accord goals
The report, "Impact of COVID19 Mitigation on Traffic, Fuel Use and Climate Change" is available on the UC Davis Road Ecology Center website. - CBS San Francisco: Coronavirus Update: California Emissions Dip Drastically During Shelter-In-Place, UC Davis Study ...
DAVIS (CBS SF) – While the coronavirus shelter-in-place orders have caused a steep decline in traffic, a new study looks to quantify the ... - WIRED: Covid-19 Spurs a Road Repair Boom—and Threatens a Bust
California, too, is headed for a budgetary crunch: A new report out of UC Davis estimates the state is losing out on $46 million a week in fuel taxes. - San Francisco Chronicle: Report: State could lose $1.3 billion in gas tax revenue during coronavirus shutdown
a side effect of the decline in driving, according to a scientist at UC Davis. The numbers appear in a new report from the... - CBS Sacramento: Coronavirus Impact Report: Americans Have Driven 60 Percent Less Since Stay-At-Home Order Began
-tax revenues. A report issued Friday from the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis estimated that U.S. drivers went from traveling 103...... - The San Diego Union-Tribune: UC Davis study estimates driving in California has dropped 75%
Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, a research organization that focuses on the impacts of... - Gizmodo Australia: Coronavirus Has Taken A Paris Agreement-Size Chunk Out Of US Emissions
The University of California, Davis published a report last week... - CSPDailyNews.com: Shelter-in-Place Orders Hammer Gas Tax Revenue
The UC Davis researchers determined that daily travel in the first week of March was the equivalent to 4.6 billion gallons of fuel. By the second week of ... - KQED Public Radio: Coronavirus Forces Huge Number of Californians Off Road, as Tele-Everything Becomes New Climate Option | KQED
off the road. Environmentally, it’s been a boon. Researchers at the UC Davis Road Ecology Center found that after a statewide... - NJ.com: Traffic deaths in N.J. plunge to 50-year low as coronavirus leaves roads empty
to about 200 a day, according to an April study by the University of California, Davis. But not every state has seen... - Capital Public Radio: Can California’s Air Remain Clean Post Pandemic? Yes, If The State Amps Up Its Climate Goals, Studies Say.
and has resulted in a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, said UC Davis Road Ecology Center director Fraser...
UC Davis Press Release (4/29): UC Davis Engineers, Clinician Develop Low-Cost, Portable Ventilator
- Forbes: Africa Will Need Thousands Of Inexpensive Ventilators To Treat COVID-19 Patients And We Can Help Them
about this, highlighting work done to produce low cost units at Villanova, UC Davis, Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota.......
Older 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.
- Safety+Health Magazine: Study shows better airflow, more natural light can reduce spread of COVID-19 at work
coronavirus that causes COVID-19 – researchers at the University of California, Davis and the University Oregon looked... - Yahoo Style UK: Coronavirus: Open windows if isolating with an infected loved one
experts have recommended people open windows. A team from the University of California, Davis, previously advised people......
Other UC Davis Research and Research Studies in the News
UC Davis professors speak to environmental changes COVID-19 pandemic has brought and will ...
The Aggie
One lens the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has been analyzed through is that of the environmental side effects resulting from lockdown measures ...
Vulnerable, Vilified, and Essential: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum-Seekers during COVID-19
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Recent reports from the Center for Migration Studies and the UC Davis Global Migration Center show that immigrants are...
Bay Area Headlines: Tuesday, 5/5/20, AM
KALW
them up out of hibernation eventually leading to starvation. Scientists at UC Davis are studying how COVID-19 could impact...
Curing Coronavirus: Volunteers to be injected with COVID-19 to help find vaccine
KGO-TV
RELATED: Potential coronavirus vaccine being tested by researchers at UC Davis They explained their mission of conducting a "human challenge ...
Why Singers Might Be Covid-19 Super-Spreaders
Elemental
fine aerosol particles for an as yet unknown physiological reason, the UC Davis researchers found in a 2019 study in Nature’s Scientific Reports....
Coronavirus live updates: Gov. Newsom to announce California reopening guidelines, COVID-19 ...
KGO-TV
and testing will be done in partnership with the UC Davis, Mouse Biology Program. The vaccine uses a skin patch with a metal microneedle to deliver the ...
How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
ProPublica
Health Institute, an interdisciplinary epidemiological program at the University of California, Davis, puts it, global...
UC Davis hosts COVID-19 public awareness symposium via Zoom, YouTube
The Aggie
UC Davis experts on immunology, infectious diseases, pathology and emergency medicine gave presentations and answered questions from the ...
A Much-Hyped COVID-19 Drug Is Almost Identical to a Black-Market Cat Cure
The Atlantic
Its scientists co-authored the UC Davis studies showing effectiveness against FIP. But the company has refused to license GS-441524 for animal use, ...
Narwhals and belugas may be at high risk for coronavirus infection, researchers fear
Arctic Today
A team of researchers at the University of California Davis have created a list of animals with ACE-2 receptors likely to bind closely to the...
UC Davis Researchers and Experts Providing Insight
Christine Johnson, epidemiologist
- ABC News: Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' for unproven theory that coronavirus came from lab
... Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified." Pompeo ... Development's Predict project and a professor at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. - Abccolumbia.com: Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' for unproven theory that coronavirus came from lab
... Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.” Pompeo ... Development's Predict project and a professor at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. - Kunr: Stopping The Next Pandemic: Catching Animal Viruses Before They Mutate To Infect Humans
,” said Christine Kreuder Johnson , an epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis who co-directs the PREDICT......
Fraser Shilling, director of the Road Ecology Center
- British Medical Journal: The positive effects of covid-19
Fraser Shilling, director of the Road Ecology Center at the University of California at Davis, found that highway... - KALW: Bay Area Headlines: Thursday, 5/7/20, AM
before the pandemic began, says Fraser Shilling. He’s the director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center. If this keeps up for a...
Robert Emmons, a professor of psychology
- The Wall Street Journal: A Surprising Way to Stay Resilient
Reminding yourself what you’re grateful for can boost your mental health and help you cope with coronavirus stress
Robert Emmons, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, says gratitude is not a feeling that can be willed easily. But...
Richard M. Frank, director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center
- NBCNEWS.com: In California, social distancing clashes with beach worship
, director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center at the University of California Davis School of Law....
Heather Riden, manager of the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
- ABC News: Essential farmworkers risk COVID-19 exposure to maintain food supply
of the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at the University of California, Davis, has been working to come......
Ming-cheng Lo, professor of sociology
- Bangkok Post: Covid report card
Lo, a professor of sociology at the University of California-Davis at the University of...
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities
- The City: Early Precautions Draw a Life-and-Death Divide Between Flushing and Corona
of food,” said Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities. But Asian New Yorkers......
Brad Pollock, associate dean and chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences
- Davis Enterprise: UC Davis Medical Center begins antibody testing
-19 testing at UC Davis Health. According to Brad Pollock, associate dean and chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences...
Michael Schivo, a pulmonologist at UC Davis Health
- National Public Radio: VIDEO: How The Novel Coronavirus Hijacks Our Defenses
, and this is one of them," says Dr. Michael Schivo, a pulmonologist at UC Davis Health. "No. 1, [the novel coronavirus] can make us...
Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Southern California Public Radio: COVID-19: The Latest With Physician, Models Predict Significant Increase In U.S. Cases
story here. Guest: Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s......
Jenessa Gjeltema, Professor and Specialist in Zoological Medicine
- Newsweek: 'Tiger King' Star Says America's Unregulated Zoos Could Be Putting Thousands of Tigers at Risk of COVID-19
," Jenessa Gjeltema, Professor and Specialist in Zoological Medicine at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and Head...
Paul Knoepfler, stem cell biologist
- Fit – The Quint: Stem Cell Treatment for COVID-19; Doctors Divided on Its Scope
fb tw Similarly, stem cell biologist Paul Knoepfler of the University of California, Davis, told The Scientist, that he......
David Sumner, director of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center
- Marketplace: Times aren’t rose-colored for America’s flower farmers
In the meantime, David Sumner, who directs the University of California Agricultural Issues Center in Davis, said he is worried about farmworkers.... - KTVU.com: Potential for meat shortages may go away sooner than later
. To avoid meat hoarding, many grocers are limiting purchases. UC Davis Professor Daniel Sumner is a renowned agricultural...
Simine Vazire, psychology professor
- Undark: Where Psychologists Should Fear to Tread on Covid-19, They Don’t
illnesses. To Simine Vazire, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, such predictions were wildly......
Jeff Tully, anesthesiologist and security researcher
- Becker’s Hospital Review: COVID-19 cyber threats: Why data integrity is crucial & how to protect it
, anesthesiologist and security researcher affiliated with University of California Davis Medical Center. And while...
Dr. Michelle Dossett
- Capital Public Radio: Using Mind-Body Practices To Deal With COVID-19 Stresses
dedication to these exercises, she says. Dr. Michelle Dossett with UC Davis Medical Center says it’s not just their imagination....
Nistara Randhawa, veterinary epidemiologist
- Daily Democrat: Yolo County bats are no cause for concern
Randhawa, a veterinary epidemiologist, and a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Davis One Health Institute. “The problem comes when we......
Sima Asadi, a chemical engineer
- WIRED: Why Meatpacking Plants Have Become Covid-19 Hot Spots
Large Covid-19 clusters have also appeared in meatpacking plants around the world, ... workers, says Sima Asadi, a chemical engineer at UC Davis.
Pranav Pandit, veterinary epidemiologist
- Down to Earth: Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Humans tend to be naive to emerging viruses’
humanity that is squarely responsible for the emergence of new viruses in the last few decades, according to Pranav Pandit, veterinary epidemiologist...
Niels Pedersen, Veterinary Medicine
- Vet Times: Vet science ‘being ignored’ in quest for COVID-19 drug
man who knows this better than most is Niels Pedersen at the University of California, Davis, who published a paper last.....
Helene Margolis, an expert on climate and health
- Media, Entertainment, Arts, WorldWide: Cooling centers may fuel coronavirus spread amid heat waves, CDC suggests creating individual family spaces
" said Helene Margolis, an expert on climate and health at the University of California, Davis, told Scientific American.......
Peter Yellowlees, chief wellness director at UC Davis Health
- The Sacramento Bee: Do you have coronavirus shopping anxiety? These Sacramento therapists can help with that
a very common problem,” said Peter Yellowlees, chief wellness director at UC Davis Health. “If you were anxious before COVID, this......