UC Davis is playing many roles in the effort to find a vaccine for COVID-19, and the world got good news this week about the vaccination trial in which UC Davis Health is participating.
That vaccine, created by Pfizer and BioNTech and given to around 200 participants by UC Davis Health, was said to be more than 90 percent effective in early results.
Pfizer said it would ask the FDA for emergency-use authorization for the vaccine in late November.
Read more about UC Davis Health’s involvement in the clinical trial.
Facebook: Vaccine candidate update from the New York Times
UC Davis Health: We are proud of the role we have played so far in this trial. Together with UC Davis, we continue to partner with Pfizer to help make sure all people in Northern California will benefit from this #vaccine. [Click for link]
Zoom backgrounds from Veterinary Medicine
Want to invite a four-legged friend to sit in on a Zoom meeting without having to clean up afterward? The School of Veterinary Medicine has several virtual backgrounds available for download featuring a wide variety of species (including some with two legs, some with none) and some familiar campus sights.
Here’s a how-to from Zoom on the basics of using a photo or video as your background.
Download other Zoom backgrounds featuring:
- Photos of campus
- Photos taken at UC Davis Health
- Images from the UC Davis Library’s Archives and Special Collections
- Undergraduate Education branding
- A celebration of first-gen college graduates
School of Nursing celebrates nurse practitioners
This week is the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ Nurse Practitioner Week, and to celebrate, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing asked someone in that profession why she enjoyed it.
Watch the above video to hear why Alex Peck enjoys her career so much.
Reddit: Missing a class ring?
Xxssandman: My dad works as a custodian at UC Davis and found this class ring a couple of weeks ago on the street. He said I should try to find the owner on here. I will link other pictures in the replies. If it belongs to you and you can tell me the name on the inside, it’s yours! I think the year says “70” but is also kinda looks like a “10” or even “20.”