News Stories about air filter testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Davis, CA schools

David Coil has been coordinating a project to do air filter testing for Sars-CoV-2 in Davis, CA schools in collaboration with Heather Bischel, Karen Shapiro, Roque G Guerrero, Randi Pechacek, and others. This has been supported by the Healthy Davis Together project.

Recently there have been a few news stories about this work and I thought I would post some links here.

KCRA: Here’s the new way COVID-19 testing is happening at 2 Davis schools

Woodland Daily Democrat: Davis Joint Unified School District prepares against COVID-19 with air filters

Also see UC Davis Live on this topic: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/media-advisory-uc-davis-live-back-to-school-safely

And see the Healthy Davis Together page on this: https://healthydavistogether.org/airfiltertesting/

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen

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New paper from Eisen lab and others … on challenges with relic RNA in SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveys April 27, 2022

New paper out from my lab and other labs. Zuniga-Montanez R, Coil DA, Eisen JA, Pechacek R, Guerrero RG, Kim M, Shapiro K, Bischel HN. The challenge of SARS-CoV-2 environmental monitoring in schools using floors and portable HEPA filtration units: Fresh or relic RNA? PLoS One. 2022 Apr 22;17(4):e0267212. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267212. PMID: 35452479; PMC […]

New preprint out from my lab and others about environmental monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in schools and in part about how difficult this is November 18, 2021

New preprint out on from the Eisen Lab and others. This is from a collaboration between David Coil, Heather Bischel, Karen Shapiro, Randi Pechacek, Roque G. Guerrero, Minji Kim, and Rogelio Zuniga-Montanez (first author) at University of California, Davis. It is about environmental monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in schools and, well, in part about how difficul […]

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