July 9, 2020
…due to the evolving COVID-19 public health crisis. Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of UC San Diego’s Office of Academic Integrity. Photo by Marcy Zimmerman. Today, colleges across the nation are making critical decisions for the coming academic year. UC San Diego recently announced that the campus will offer more than…
July 30, 2020
…SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Contact tracing involves interviewing individuals who are infected and their close contacts. Close contacts of an infected person are individuals who have been within six feet of the person who has the infection for more than 15 minutes. Q. What information is shared with contacts…
March 17, 2022
UC San Diego study shows neuroendocrine cells in the lungs drive a developmental lung disease, and a similar brain-lung interaction may contribute to COVID-19 symptoms. The findings suggest neuropeptides may be a promising therapeutic target for conditions with excess lung fluid.
April 30, 2024
Rates of HIV transmission increased when the U.S./Mexico border was closed for COVID-19, according to a new study from University of California San Diego and Irvine.
September 3, 2020
…economic struggles and the COVID-19 pandemic, donors gave generously to the University of California San Diego in fiscal year 2019-2020. Philanthropic gifts and grants to fund a range of initiatives resulted in a record-breaking year for the Campaign for UC San Diego: $344.4 million was raised—the third consecutive year the…
November 16, 2020
A team of American and Canadian researchers report that while they may feel uncomfortable, there is little empirical evidence that wearing a face mask significantly diminishes lung function, even when worn during heavy exercise.
April 24, 2024
A new study published in JAMA finds that X’s (formerly Twitter’s) Community Notes, a crowdsourced approach to addressing misinformation, helped counter false health information in popular posts about COVID-19 vaccines by providing accurate, credible responses.
September 17, 2020
…especially schools. Even before COVID-19, there were over 2.5 million children in the United States who were unable to attend school in person due to medical conditions. The current pandemic has both increased this number and isolated them even further. The project team includes Laurel Riek, a professor in the…
July 20, 2020
Engineers have incorporated a new understanding of the impact of environmental factors on droplet spread into a mathematical model that can be used to predict the early spread of respiratory viruses including COVID-19, and the role of respiratory droplets in that spread.
March 3, 2021
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers develop an automated process to test city sewage for SARS-CoV-2, allowing them to forecast the region’s COVID-19 caseload one to two weeks ahead of clinical diagnostic reports.
