Guest Commentary: COVID-19 – What Has Brought Us Here, Where Do We Go Next?
by Robb Davis Yesterday David wrote of the difficult place in which we now find ourselves vis-a-vis the virus. It is a challenging moment and past time to think about what brought us here and what we...
View Article6 Individuals on San Quentin’s Death Row Died of Coronavirus, Shortage of...
By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag California firefighting forces are still lacking in numbers after four CDCR fire camps had quarantine extended. As discussed in our last weekly...
View ArticleQuestions Arise as Solano County Jails Continually Report 0 Cases – Weekly...
By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 11th – July 18th) The total number of confirmed cases is still 0 in both Solano County Jail and Solano County Juvenile Detention Facility (JDF), while there are 2,372...
View ArticleUC Davis And The City of Davis Create Joint Program Called “Healthy Davis...
By Samantha Hum UC Davis and the City of Davis are collaborating to fight the spread of COVID-19 in an effort called “Healthy Davis Together.” Healthy Davis Together, a joint effort between the city...
View ArticleDiscussions on Addressing Mental Health and Systemic Racism in Davis in...
By Emily Dill DAVIS —Mental health and systemic racism become highly contentious topics at the temporary joint subcommittee meeting on Wednesday evening. Discussions of how to define and ensure the...
View ArticleCommentary: Things Were Working, Why Change COVID Policies?
By David M. Greenwald Throughout this whole pandemic, the US has shown a stunning lack of patience. What has happened is that we had the initial outbreak in March and April, we were able to go through...
View ArticleYolo County Back in the Purple as California Sets An All-Time High
By David M. Greenwald The surge that had for some time spared California has hit and hit hard as the Monday daily total topped 13,000 new cases – new high for the pandemic and Yolo County was one of...
View ArticleCommentary: We Should Stick with Evidence-Based COVID Restrictions
By David M. Greenwald As we wait for a vaccine, COVID is out of control and clearly state and local government had to step in. ICU capacity is expected to drop below 15 percent in our region—that’s a...
View ArticleSome Good News As Sacramento Region Sees Stay-At-Home Lifted
By David M. Greenwald It was a grim day across the country on Tuesday. A record 4400 people died of COVID nationally. In California it was little better—53,260 new cases, more than the nation was...
View ArticleHealthy Davis Together Team Emphasizes Maintaining Vigilance Despite Lifted...
By Lauren Smith At Tuesday evening’s City council meeting, Dr. Kenneth Burtis and Dr. Brad Pollock shared an update on Healthy Davis Together (HDT) and heavily emphasized the importance of expanding...
View ArticleLetter: Healthy Davis Together Should Be Healthy Yolo Together
by Alan C. Miller Open letter to Davis City Council Dear City Council Members, I am unclear why this testing program [Healthy Davis Together] is being rolled out to the entire population of the City of...
View ArticleVanguard Webinar: COVID, UC Davis & Educational Challenges During a Pandemic...
The discussion focused on COVID and UC Davis – how UC Davis was weathering the COVID pandemic, how it has held up under distance learning and whether distance learning was likely to be a model for the...
View ArticleCalifornia’s New Approach to Vaccine Distribution Is “Another Point of...
Credit: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty By Macy Lu YOLO COUNTY — Yolo County and the City of Davis authorities are flustered after learning that changes to the statewide vaccination process will reduce...
View ArticleCommentary: Yolo Goes Back into the Red – Can It Stay This Time?
By David M. Greenwald Twice before Yolo County has been locked down—once in the spring when the initial pandemic wave hit, once over the summer when there was a new surge of cases, and now since...
View ArticleCity of Davis Requires Personnel to Vaccinate
Special To the Vanguard Davis, CA – Following many other government entities, the City of Davis announced Tuesday that it has issued a vaccine requirement for its personnel, including employees,...
View ArticleRemarks by LWV President Mary Jo Bryan
Mary Jo Bryan speaking on Wednesday By Mary Jo Bryan Editor’s note: the following remarks were delivered by Davis League of Women Voter’s President Mary Jo Bryan. “I am pleased to appear today to...
View ArticleNew California Bill Attempts to Prevent Doctors from Spreading COVID...
By Nicolas Cital New legislation (AB 2098) signed on September 30 by California Governor Gavin Newsom has made it illegal for doctors to spread misleading or false information about COVID to patients....
View ArticleStudent Opinion: Eli Lilly Twitter Backlash
By Kayla Ngai Eli Lilly and Company, a pharmaceutical company, is under fire after a Twitter troll faked their identity. For more context, Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 million dollars, but...
View Article15 Million Dollar Research Grant Awarded to UC Davis for AI Cancer Detection...
By: Jordan Poltorak DAVIS, CA–The University has received a 15 million dollar grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop artificial intelligence (AI) that can detect breast cancer and create...
View ArticleUC Davis’ Mindfulness Tea Meditation Program
By Jessica Diggs The Mindfulness Tea Meditation program, a series of 15-minute Zoom sessions organized through Shields Library in UC Davis, led by Student Services librarian and veterinary technician,...
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