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Aggressive testing and other prevention efforts key to success Author: Imran Ghori
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Since mid-April, UC Riverside has had only a handful of positive COVID-19 cases, continuing a rapid decline that began in January.
Campus leaders involved in COVID-19 prevention efforts credit the low positivity rate to proactive efforts including the creation of a homegrown diagnostic lab, regular testing of students, and continuous messaging about the importance of social distancing and wearing face coverings.
From September through mid-April, the campus conducted nearly 29,000 tests on campus with a positivity rate of 0.41%.
Since February, the number of positive cases each week has been in the single digits with zero cases many weeks. During the same period, vaccination rates have risen. Since January, UCR Health administered nearly 5,000 shots at its on-campus clinic, many to employees.
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New startups developing health and diagnostic technologies May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021
Two new tenants have joined the UC Riverside Life Sciences Incubator as the campus continues to ramp-up research and provide lab and office space for life science entrepreneurs.
NeyroblastGX and GattaCo Inc. are the third and fourth tenants to join the state-of-the-art research facility housed in the Multidisciplinary Research Building. Karamedica Inc. and Murrieta Genomics Inc. were the first two tenants in the incubator, which is managed by the UC Riverside Office of Technology Partnerships.
NeyroblastGX, which was founded last year, began working out of the incubator in January and has received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Science Foundation.
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Color tiers will end; UCR revisits fall plans
UCR looks to more progressive reopening after governor announces tier assignments will end by June 15 Author: J.D. Warren
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement about a full California reopening on June 15 didn’t scramble UC Riverside’s plans for fall 2021, but it threw in some hot sauce.
“It made us more progressive in our planning,” UCR Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox said. “If COVID-19 vaccinations continue to trend as they are, and if there isn’t a COVID-19 outbreak, campus will look more like ‘normal’ than we thought it would even a short time ago.”