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UCSC researchers are taking on the coronavirus challenge on multiple fronts
From developing diagnostic tests to conducting surveys of infection prevalence, campus researchers are doing what they can in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. more »
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November 14, 2022Laurie Garrett recounts public health failures in talk on COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness
Sponsored by UCSC’s Global and Community Health Program, Garrett’s talk highlighted the urgent need to strengthen public health infrastructure.
August 11, 2022New study shows COVID-19 genomic recombination is uncommon but disproportionately occurs in spike protein region
An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to attach to and infect host cells.
June 21, 2022The team behind a tree of 10 million Covid sequences
10 million sequences of COVID-19’s genomic code have now been organized into a phylogenetic tree in the UC Santa Cruz SARS-CoV-2 Browser, which is the largest tree of genomic sequences of a single species ever assembled.
UCSC in the media
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Education Week
After Propping Up Schools in the Pandemic, Teachers Now Feel Ignored
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USA Today
Recess to the rescue: School play time for kids is more important than ever
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Education Week
Will the Pandemic Drive Teachers Out of the Profession? What One Study Says
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz research: Pumas inched closer during COVID shelter-in-place orders
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Los Angeles Times
The pandemic saw a boom in new Black-owned businesses — the largest surge in the last quarter-century
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Lockdown-emboldened mountain lions ventured farther into urban areas, UCSC researchers say
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National Geographic
Why too much family togetherness might be stressing out kids
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The New York Times
US prisons start to resume allowing visits to inmates, with added virus precautions
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KTVU FOX 2
One year later: How COVID killed small businesses
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The Washington Post
As Uber avoided paying into unemployment, the federal government helped thousands of its drivers weather the pandemic
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CalMatters
‘Revolutionary’ federal stimulus bill could cut California child poverty by half
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CNBC
Asian-owned small businesses saw an outsized pandemic impact last year
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KAZU
The Ones That Never Reopened: The Pandemic’s Impact On Local Businesses
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The Wall Street Journal
Shopify’s Secret Weapon Is Thousands of New Business Owners
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The Washington Post
Kamala Harris: The exodus of women from the workforce is a national emergency
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Los Angeles Magazine
Amid a health and economic crisis, some local grocery stores offload their delivery drivers
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Salon
Is the pandemic making our social skills decay? Psychologists think so
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Lookout Santa Cruz
UCSC economist warns Congress of ‘alarming’ reversal in small business recovery
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Reuters
Minority-owned businesses struggle to access credit during pandemic, Fed survey finds
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The Atlantic
The pandemic has erased entire categories of friendship
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The Atlantic
The U.S. Must Do More to Care for Its Caregivers
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The Sacramento Bee
Some California jobs lost to COVID will never be the same. Here’s what experts say
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Marketplace
Has 2020’s spike in support for Black-owned business carried through to the holidays?
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Los Angeles Times
Will California’s small businesses survive another COVID-19 surge without more help?
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The New York Times
The year of the blur: how isolation, monotony and chronic stress are destroying our sense of time
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The American Prospect
Prisons' pandemic response: throw the infected into the hole
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Bloomberg
U.S. Black-owned firms make surprise comeback to pre-Covid level
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