COVID-19 Testing Content

Genome Center Passes 1 Million COVID-19 Tests, Helping Keep Positivity Rates Low

Andy Fell — October 15, 2021 - 3:48pm

69��’ asymptomatic COVID-19 testing program completed its 1 millionth test this week, a little more than a year since the campus began offering tests to on-campus students, faculty and staff in mid-September 2020.

Viral Loads Similar Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People

Andy Fell — October 04, 2021 - 12:25pm

A new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who tested positive for the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. It also found no significant difference between infected people with or without symptoms.

A Race Against the Virus: How 69�� Health Created Its COVID-19 Test in 19 Days

Tanya H Perez — April 19, 2021 - 1:21pm

In January 2020, Nam Tran and his colleagues in the 69�� Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine were scaling up testing platforms for seasonal influenza and the common cold.

Tran, a professor of clinical pathology in the 69�� School of Medicine, was following reports out of China about a mysterious new respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2. Not much was known at the time about how the novel coronavirus spread or what the mortality rate was.

Detection of Coronavirus B.1.351 Variant Confirmed in Yolo County

mlblouin — April 06, 2021 - 10:00am

News release from Healthy Davis Together, issued today (April 6).

Through genotyping all positive samples as part of Healthy Davis Together’s free community COVID-19 test operations, the 69�� Genome Center has identified the first known case of the B.1.351 variant of the virus SARS-CoV-2 in Yolo County.

Additional Testing Sites, Perhaps Closer to Home

Dave Jones — February 16, 2021 - 8:50am

COVID-19 Testing During Winter Break

Dave Jones — December 15, 2020 - 10:45pm

The COVID-19 testing kiosk in the Activities and Recreation Center, or ARC — for employees and students — will be closed Dec. 21 to Jan.

No COVID-19 Test? No Access

Dave Jones — December 01, 2020 - 3:24pm

The campus implemented its COVID-19 testing requirement two weeks ago and, as of today (Dec. 1), the Daily Symptom Survey is asking employees and students if they have complied. For those who answer “no,” the survey will respond with “not approved” for entry to 69�� facilities in Davis and elsewhere in Yolo County.