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Asked in the fall of 2020 to do their part in containing the spread of COVID-19 through regular…

Fewer than half of Davis Joint Unified School District students appear to be participating in weekly COVID-19 testing…

As UC Davis Health physicians grapple with growing numbers of COVID-19 patients, one thing is clear in the…

Healthy Davis Together sees big jump in COVID cases Shares Last Wednesday, Healthy Davis Together collected 47 positive samples from its COVID-19 testing in and around Davis. Those 47 positive cases didn’t just represent the highest single-day total in months; they tied the all-time high of 47 collected on Jan. 3 at the height of the winter surge. Last week alone, Healthy Davis Together reported 209 positive test results and a test positivity rate of 2.16 percent, the highest since early Janu...

COVID hospitalizations hit five-month high 1 minute read Wastewater monitoring by Healthy Davis Together has shown an increase in levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 in city wastewater, with a notable spike in East Davis in particular. Courtesy graphic Support Local Journalism COVID-19 hospitalizations in Yolo County hit a five-month high on Tuesday. The county reported 12 people hospitalized with COVID-19, the most at one time since March 1. Hospitalizations had been in the low single di...

Yolo County may not have made it to the least-restrictive yellow tier in the state’s COVID-19 blueprint, but…

To test or not to test: Conflicting advice for those who are vaccinated Yolo County and Healthy Davis Together appear to be at odds over whether fully vaccinated individuals should continue to get regularly tested for COVID-19. During a Davis City Council meeting last week, Healthy Davis Together officials urged residents to continue to get tested even after being vaccinated, citing breakthrough cases of fully vaccinated individuals who have tested positive. But Yolo County Health Officer Dr. A...

Decline in testing raises concerns for Healthy Davis Together leaders 5 minute read Healthy Davis Together reported an uptick in new COVID-19 cases as well as the test positivity rate recently. HDT provides asymptomatic testing to everyone who lives or works in Davis as well as their family members. Healthy Davis Together graphic Support Local Journalism B.1.1.7 variant now accounts for 75 percent of local cases Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing by Healthy Davis Together has given Davis one of the...

In Davis, there is a pilot program in place to identify COVID-19 in the classroom. The detection program, however, doesnt involve testing students and instead uses cutting-edge technology to track the virus first.A UC Davis scientist came up with the idea to test the filtration system in classrooms for signs of the virus. Two schools implemented it three weeks ago, and, so far, its working. The participating schools have identified cases of COVID-19 before it spread to more students. High-...

Healthy Davis Together expands vaccination program 5 minute read Dr. Sheri Belafsky, left, chats with nurse Sarah Jorgensen at Thursday’s vaccine clinic in Woodland. Belafsky is the medical director of Healthy Davis Together, which is running the clinic. Anne Ternus-Bellamy/Enterprise photo Support Local Journalism Shares Jessica DeZarn, a UC Davis nurse, pulls individual doses from a vial of Covid-19 vaccine at the Healthy Davis Together/CommuniCare vaccine clinic now open to the general pu...