Don's Home Health Coronavirus Pandemic Davis COVID-19 Testing Contact

Healthy Davis Together - Working to prevent COVID-19 in Davis.
An award winning joint project between the City of Davis and UC Davis with a goal to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and facilitate a coordinated and gradual return to regular city activities and reintegration of UC Davis students back into the Davis community. It offers free testing to people with or without symptoms.

The $80 million projcct paid for by major donations, state and federal grants, and Cares Act funds - all so people like Perez can come a few times a week to sites like this one, take a PCR saliva test and get their results in a day.

Dr. Sheri Belafsky, director of the medical surveillance program at the UC Davis School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences said, "We'd like to encourage all members of the community who feel like they have need for it to take advantage of it,"

High on the list of those who should are high-risk populations and individuals with significant public contact, including first responders, healthcare workers, teachers and daycare providers, service workers and those working at community organizations or the city.
But people who will be traveling over the holidays or will have family visiting should also consider getting tested.

If you are a UC Davis employee or student who is accessing these facilities at least once a week, you must be tested weekly.

It uses A rapid saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by UC Davis.
You make an appointment and go into one of three testing locations around town where you spit into a testube.
It is a PCR molecular diagnostic test.

In October 2021 Davis was awarded a Beacon Leadership and Innovation Award by the Institute for Local Government for cross-agency collaboration on a program that helped prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the city and coordinated the gradual return of UC Davis students back into the community.
See City wins statewide award for Healthy Davis Together collaboration.

Links:
COVID-19 Testing, Davis, CA - Healthy Davis Together