Really just so proud of all the people at @ucdavis and at @HealthyDavis and #DavisCA involved in this. And happy to play a supporting role.

A California College Tries to Shield an Entire City From Coronavirus

Incredibly thankful to my lab manager and friend @davidacoil for his amazing efforts on this project, helping set up the testing, working with @HealthyDavis, managing procurement of supplies (which he loves), and just working his tail off on this. #HealthyDavis
Also incredibly impressed with the @genomecenter and @michelmorelab and others for getting the high throughout testing up and running and working very well #HealthDavis
Many thought this could not be done on this scale, in this way. But Richard Michelmore and others at @genomecenter (and with support of many @ucdavis from top to bottom) they figured it out. #HealthyDavis
The @ucdavis campus leadership found the money to get things up and running and linking to the local community via @HealthyDavis has also been critical
And Dr. Bradley Pollock (who I do not think is on Twitter but not sure) but see some information here https://t.co/RmEAgu4nlR from @ucdavis @UCDavisMedCntr @UCDavisMed has been pretty incredible piecing everything together
My role in this has been in two main areas.

1. Helping w/ environmental testing for #SarsCoV2 (projects being led by others such as @davidacoil @colorsofwater)

2. Running a @ucdavis course where students work at testing kiosks

#HealthyDavis
For more on the course see
For more on course see https://t.co/RUevWn6F4B and https://t.co/tzeude6k08 #HealthyDavis
And now I am also working with @HealthyDavis on issues relating to the "built environment" and communications about #COVID19 (building on work on our #microBEnet project which was supported by @SloanFoundation and @polsiewski) see https://t.co/T2aZCfS1uk #HealthyDavis
And also want to give thanks to @KenBurtis who was the person who originally recruited my to @ucdavis and now is helping coordinate the @HealthyDavis work #HealthyDavis
I also want to give a shout out to the 100s of people at @ucdavis who are doing #COVID19 related research on vaccines, drugs, social impacts, transmission, genomics, environmental sampling, treatment, and much more. So many people have dropped their projects to contribute.
I have been impressed w/ how leadership from across campus (e.g. @LairmoreDVMDean, @prasantm @ucdavisbiology's Winey, @UCDavisMedCntr leaders like @DrABrashear & @AngelaHaczku et al.) have worked to break down barriers between schools & build collaborative #COVID19 projects
There is still of course, much much more to do. Vaccines. Campus and local school reopenings. Dealing w/ new strains. Supporting reopening of businesses. Protecting people at long term care facilities. Dealing with social inequities. And more.
And spreading technologies, tools & approaches more broadly is critical. And dealing w/ #COVID19 deniers & #antimaskers and such too. Lots of challenges remain. But with the incredible work of teams like those at @ucdavis & @HealthyDavis I am hopeful we are turning the tide.
Tons more people to thank for their role in the @ucdavis and @HealthyDavis projects.

One shout out I want to make now is to @UCDavisSHCS and their director Dr. Cindy Schorzman. They have been the group coordinating all the testing on campus and been remarkable.

More soon.
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A great product for a great cause.

Congrats Chris on winning $250!


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Really impressive for 24 hours. Congrats!


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