January 27, 2022
January 27, 2022 —
…part of the ZAP COVID-19 Study, a UC San Diego employee has blood drawn through a fingerstick device at Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health. How Protective are COVID Antibodies? Campus volunteers needed for largest study to date to understand Covid-19 immunity. The University of California San Diego…
February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021 —
…the New World of COVID-19 Innovation Chancellor to join panel on Feb. 25 highlighting groundbreaking initiatives across campus and research labs It’s been more than a year since our news feeds first alerted us to a mysterious illness and its rapid spread. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our…
June 25, 2020
June 25, 2020 —
…Opportunity to Assist with COVID-19 Recovery Students at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management are getting a hands-on opportunity to give back to the community and assist with COVID-19 business recovery efforts in San Diego. In May 2020, the Rady School launched the Rady School Business Recovery Coalition to…
October 31, 2022
October 31, 2022 —
UC San Diego researchers and others report that more than one-third of the COVID-19 patients who did not receive any treatment experienced complete resolution of symptoms for at least two consecutive days, but then subsequently reported a return of symptoms.
January 28, 2021
January 28, 2021 —
…Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 It’s hoped the long-used approach, which would use antibody-rich infusions, can either reduce disease symptoms or prevent infections after exposure to SARS-CoV-2 Parallel to COVID-19 vaccination efforts, physicians and researchers at UC San Diego Health, with collaborators across the country, are conducting a pair of…
March 26, 2020
March 26, 2020 —
…Robots Can Help Combat COVID-19: Science Robotics Editorial Can robots be effective tools in combating the COVID-19 pandemic? A group of leaders in the field of robotics, including Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego’s Contextual Robotics Institute, say yes, and outline a number of examples in an editorial in…
August 4, 2022
August 4, 2022 —
Health Risks of COVID-19 Spurred More Smokers to Quit New UC San Diego Rady School of Management study is first to track smoking behavior at the individual level during the pandemic Being a smoker makes it more likely for a person to have severe COVID-19 symptoms, require hospitalization or die,…
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020 —
…member to receive the COVID-19 vaccine—at 8:38 a.m. on Wednesday. Ending the Pandemic Begins Now A Statement by Patty Maysent, CEO, UC San Diego Health These are momentous days, though too often darkened by rising rates of COVID-19 transmission, reports of overstressed hospitals, increasing sickness and mortality. But now, we…
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
Dissecting COVID-19: Biology Professor Opens Infectious Disease Course to Public Audiences Podcasted class on UCTV and other outlets to analyze the biological roots and spread of coronavirus Division of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Justin Meyer. Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Justin Meyer oversees a laboratory that specializes in the evolution of…
March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023 —
A $1 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation will launch a UC San Diego-led national effort to more deeply study tissue samples from patients with conditions ranging from long COVID-19 and relapsed Lyme disease to chronic fatigue syndrome.