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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. Aimee Sisson said Thursday she discourages routine testing of people who are fully vaccinated and have no COVID symptoms, in part because of the possibility of false positives that lead to “unnecessary isolation and quarantine.” ....
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 lowest test-positivity rates in California, but those overseeing the unique city-campus partnership are alarmed by the decline in testing among community members. That testing, along with the genotyping by the UC Davis Genome Center, has helped officials identify multiple variants of concern circulating in Davis. While the B.1.1.7 variant now represents 75 percent of all positive test results picked up through community and campus testing, other variants present ....
Local leaders concerned about ‘scary’ COVID variant The governor may have lifted the regional stay-at-home order covering Yolo County last week, but a more infectious new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and continued high case levels connected to holiday gatherings, call for increasing vigilance, according to those overseeing Healthy Davis Together. In an update to the Davis City Council last week, Dr. Brad Pollock, chair of the public health sciences department in the UC Davis Medical School, said he was “a little surprised by Gov. (Gavin) Newsom’s lifting the stay-at-home order now, given the fact that we think there’s still going to be an increase (in cases).” ....