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To identify COVID-19 cases, UC Davis runs a free, rapid saliva testing program on campus

We are taking a unique, multi-disciplinary arroyo to screening and testing members of UC Davis and the Davis community for the coronavirus. Screening symptom-free students and employees has helped to identify COVID-nineteen and track cases on campus.

This COVID-19 testing uses saliva samples, is cost-free to UC Davis students and employees, and provides rapid results in 24-48 hours.

COVID-19 testing is available to all UC Davis students and employees, and routine asymptomatic testing is required to monitor the health and safe of our campus community.

UC Davis also partners with the City of Davis to provide community testing through Healthy Davis Together.

Current campus testing requirements

Updated February. 1: Testing requirements will continue during the winter quarter, with some additional requirements:

• Fully vaccinated students and employees must get tested at least every 14 days, if they access campus at least once per week. For those who visit less frequently, testing is required the same day of your visit or up to fourteen days in advance.
• Unvaccinated students and employees are required to get tested at least every four days.
• Fully vaccinated students who live in residence halls who are current on their booster shot are required to become tested at to the lowest degree every 7 days.
• NEW: Students who live in residence halls — and who are fully vaccinated simply overdue for a booster shot — are required to get tested at least every four days.
• NEW: Employees who work in health intendance settings or in patient intendance – and who are fully vaccinated but overdue for a booster shot – have been notified they must go tested at least every four days.

Winter Quarter Guidance provides useful FAQs for our current state of affairs likewise as details for those who are encountering a blue Daily Symptom Survey result, as you must get a negative COVID-19 exam result confirmed prior to accessing campus facilities for the first time in 2022.

To avoid long lines at the ARC, you may also follow directions to get tested at Salubrious Davis Together sites or get tested at the Authoritative Services Building in Sacramento.

Questions and answers about testing

FAQs: We provide FAQs about testing requirements, on-campus testing and technical testing details for employees and students.

Delayed test results:Almost results are returned inside 48 hours. If y'all have not received your test result afterward 48 hours, delight log dorsum into the Health-e-Messaging Portal and cheque "Lab Results." A small number of results may take longer to be reported to the testing participant due to technical considerations. Please note a delay does non point a positive or negative result.

Student assistance with testing: If you do non observe answers on this webpage or cannot detect your test results, registered students can call (530) 752-6125 for more data.

Employee help with testing: If you lot take additional questions near testing or your test results, employees (who receive paychecks through UCPath) tin can email occupationalhealth@ucdavis.edu for assistance.

Campus COVID-19 testing is asymptomatic merely

Symptom-free: This testing is only for students and employees who do non have symptoms. Y'all will be required to complete the Daily Symptom Survey before entering the testing facility on campus.

If you have COVID-19 symptoms, contact Educatee Health and Counseling Services for intendance or testing (or your medical provider or Occupational Health if you lot are a campus employee).

How the COVID-19 testing procedure works

To find out whether they accept COVID-xix, testing participants make an appointment and then provide a saliva sample at a COVID-19 testing kiosk on campus. If you have problems logging in or making an date, contact loginproblems@shcs.ucdavis.edu.

Beforehand:

• Please stay well hydrated and drink enough of fluids 1 60 minutes before your appointment.
• Before arriving at the testing facility, you lot must complete the Daily Symptom Survey and be prepared to show your results for entry.
• NEW: Be prepared to show your photo ID after yous arrive at the testing kiosk.
• In the 30 minutes earlier your test, do non eat, drink, chew gum, smoke or brush your teeth.
• Everyone waiting in line at the kiosk will need to do their office to follow campus safety rules, including wearing a confront roofing and following physical distancing guidelines.

At the kiosk: You will be asked to sanitize your hands and provide your appointment QR code at a registration table, along with your photo ID and symptom survey results. You lot will receive a straw, a pipette seedling with purified water, and a vial with a barcode. Then yous'll follow this seven-pace process, as seen in this video:

1. One time asked, remove the cap from the vial and place information technology in the provided tray. Don't lose the cap.
2. Tip the water from the pipette bulb into your rima oris and gently swirl it around (practise not gargle).
3. Place the harbinger in the vial, merely be conscientious not to push the straw then far that it creates a seal.
4. Identify your lips on the straw and push saliva through the straw into the vial.
5. Later on filling the vial a fiddling more than halfway, remove the straw and identify it in the tray.
6. Deeply identify the cap back on the vial and place the vial into the container.
7. The attendant will take your sample. Sanitize your hands and exit.

What happens when someone tests positive for COVID-19

Of import: Please review your examination results in Wellness-e-Messaging as soon as you receive notification past email that your results are in. When a campus test comes back positive, y'all will receive an email with isolation instructions and information on how to seek care and identify and inform close contacts. While you will not be contacted past phone past a member of the contact tracing squad, delight visit the contact tracing webpage for more information on this process.

UC Davis has set aside quarantine and isolation facilities for students to employ if necessary, at the directive of Student Wellness and Counseling Services.

Aggregated results from campus testing, including positivity charge per unit, are shared publicly on the UC Davis COVID-19 Dashboard.

Employees and students who receive a positive COVID-19 test result from off-campus testing are required to written report their diagnosis to UC Davis. Notice out how to report COVID-xix if you exam positive.

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Oft asked questions

Here are some of the FAQs about UC Davis COVID-19 testing that we have received from employees and students. We volition add more questions and answers over fourth dimension. You may also watch our video demonstrating the testing procedure.

FAQs well-nigh testing requirements

• UPDATED: Can I get tested at Healthy Davis Together?

• Yes, walk-in appointments are bachelor for employees and students at Good for you Davis Together testing locations:

  >> HDT at Research Park: 1632 Da Vinci Court, Davis
  >> Veterans Memorial Heart: 203 E 14th Street, Davis
  >> West Sacramento City Hall: 1110 W Capitol Ave, West Sacramento
  >> Norton Hall: 70 Cottonwood St., Woodland

  You must go equally a walk-in and also identify yourself equally part of UC Davis upon entry, in order for your testing information to be synced with your Wellness-e-Messaging records to come across campus testing requirements.

  If you forget to identify yourself as role of UC Davis or if you brand an appointment in the Healthy Davis Together system, then you volition need to follow directions to manually report your testing information to the Health-e-Messaging system. Automatic tracking of your testing information will only happen if you become equally a walk-in and place yourself as function of UC Davis.

  Employees and students can also get PCR testing (saliva, nasal swab or nasopharyngeal swab) for COVID-nineteen from other medical providers to meet testing requirements, equally long as they report their testing data to the Wellness-e-Messaging system.

  To upload a PCR test, log in to Health-due east-Messaging and select Medical Clearances and and so "COVID-19 Vaccine and Exam." You lot must enter your test date, select your result and upload an epitome that shows proof of your appointment or event. In club to exist in compliance with testing requirements, you will need to provide this information on the mean solar day of the examination (enter a negative test event initially).

  Employees and students are required to follow protocol to report all positive COVID-nineteen tests to campus. (Updated Jan. 20, 2022)

• NEW: If I've tested positive for COVID-19 within the last 90 days, do I still have to get tested?

• No, as long equally yous had your test on campus or have properly reported your positive case through the university'southward mandatory COVID-xix reporting process within Health E-Messaging (click "Report COVID" on the dwelling screen), and so you have a testing exemption for upwards to 90 days from the date of your positive test.

• UPDATED: Can I get tested elsewhere?

• Employees and students tin get PCR testing (saliva, nasal swab or nasopharyngeal swab) for COVID-19 from other medical providers to run across testing requirements. You volition demand to upload results from your tertiary-party PCR testing in Health-e-Messaging and volition need to go on records of your tests for if/when monitoring and compliance changes in order to meet campus requirements. An antigen test is not accepted to see this requirement.

  To upload a PCR test, log in to Health-e-Messaging and select Medical Clearances and so "COVID-xix Vaccine and Test." You lot must enter your exam engagement, select your issue and upload an image that shows proof of your appointment or result.

  In order to be in compliance with new Winter Quarter COVID-nineteen guidance, yous will demand to provide this information afterward you receive a negative test result. After the showtime negative test result is provided in accelerate of your first time back on campus in 2022, then you may follow standard protocols. These allow you to provide this information on the 24-hour interval of the test (enter a negative exam result initially).

  Employees and students are required to follow protocol to report all positive COVID-19 tests to campus. (Updated December. 22, 2021)

• UPDATED: Can I encounter testing requirements with an at-dwelling test?
• If it is a PCR exam, and so yep. An antigen test will not exist accepted to come across this requirement, which rules out many rapid, calm testing options.

  Employees and students can get PCR testing (saliva, nasal swab or nasopharyngeal swab) for COVID-19 from other medical providers to encounter testing requirements. The PCR test must be performed past a CLIA-certified laboratory. You lot will demand to upload results from your third-political party PCR testing in Health-e-Messaging and volition need to keep records of your tests for if/when monitoring and compliance changes in order to meet campus requirements.

  To upload a PCR test, log in to Health-east-Messaging and select Medical Clearances and then "COVID-19 Vaccine and Test." You must enter your test date, select your issue and upload an image that shows proof of your appointment or result.

  In society to be in compliance with new Wintertime Quarter COVID-19 guidance, you will need to provide this information after y'all receive a negative test result. After the first negative test outcome is provided in accelerate of your first time dorsum on campus in 2022, and so you may follow standard protocols. These allow you lot to provide this information on the twenty-four hour period of the test (enter a negative examination result initially).

  Employees and students are required to follow protocol to report all positive COVID-xix tests to campus. (Updated Dec. 22, 2021)

• UPDATED: How exercise I written report my exam results if I get tested elsewhere?
• To upload a PCR exam from a CLIA-certified laboratory to meet campus requirements, log in to Health-eastward-Messaging and select Medical Clearances so "COVID-xix Vaccine and Test." You lot must enter your test appointment, select your result and upload an image that shows proof of your engagement or result. In order to be in compliance with new Winter Quarter COVID-nineteen guidance, you volition need to provide this information after yous receive a negative test event.

  After the commencement negative exam effect is provided in advance of your outset fourth dimension back on campus in 2022, so you may follow standard protocols. These allow you to provide this information on the day of the test (enter a negative test issue initially). Employees and students are required to follow protocol to report all positive COVID-19 tests to campus. (Updated Dec. 22, 2021)

• UPDATED: I rarely access university facilities, practise I accept to get tested every four days?

• Yep, if you are unvaccinated so equally of Sept. 9, your frequency in accessing campus facilities does not affect the testing requirements of the policy. If y'all are unvaccinated, and so you volition need to go tested every four days in order to avoid the consequences of non-compliance. If you get tested at an off-campus location, you will need to upload proof of your test to the Health-e-Messaging portal. Our campus testing requirement maximizes our chances of discovering an infection earlier information technology has a take chances to spread in our community.

  If you have verified that you are fully vaccinated, then you volition need to go tested every fourteen days — if yous visit campus at least weekly.

  Only if you are fully vaccinated and visit campus less frequently than once per week, then you will demand to become tested on the aforementioned twenty-four hour period y'all visit campus in order to admission facilities. This new requirement for vaccinated employees and students is scheduled to begin on Sept. 20, with the showtime circular of 14-twenty-four hours testing due by Oct. 4 at the latest. (Updated Sept. 15, 2021)

• NEW: I am an employee who never accesses a university facility, do I have to get tested?
• If you are an employee who volition non access campus at all for a set catamenia of fourth dimension, please talk with your supervisor virtually whether the No Physical Access Verification grade can be issued on your behalf. Doing so removes yous from vaccine policy compliance altogether because you are certifying you never come up to campus. If at some point in the future, you have need to come up to campus, yous volition need to become compliant with the UC Vaccine Policy before doing so. (Sept. 22, 2021)
• How do I seek a medical accommodation for this testing requirement?
• Employees seeking a medical accommodation to aid with testing should first contact their supervisor, who can begin a conversation with Disability Management Services so that the parties can engage in the interactive process.
• UPDATED: How will employee compliance with this testing requirement exist monitored and managed?
• Compliance is monitored through the Wellness-e-Messaging system and the Daily Symptom Survey.

  For fully vaccinated employees
  The Daily Symptom Survey will turn yellow to prove y'all are "Not Approved / Overdue for COVID-19 Testing" if yous are overdue for your 14-day testing requirement. You will even so be able to access the campus testing kiosk to get tested. If y'all visit campus less oftentimes than one time per week, so you will need to become tested in social club to access campus facilities. Once you take been tested, yous will need to take the Daily Symptom Survey again in order to exist updated to an "Approved" status to access other campus facilities.

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  For unvaccinated employees
  Employees and supervisors will exist emailed if an unvaccinated employee is out of compliance with their required testing frequency (every 96 hours). Employees who are notified or denied facility entry are directed to immediately contact their supervisors.

  Supervisors should...
  > If the employee is on work condition, utilize your regular ways of advice to issue a directive to your employee to test immediately pursuant to the notification they received (verbally or in writing).
  >If your employee is not on work status, the email notification is a reminder to the employee that they must test when they return to work status. In this case at that place is no activeness you lot need to take while the employee if off work status.

  Afterward 2nd Notification
  If y'all directed your employee to test yesterday, and you receive another notice today, that means the Health-e-Messaging system does not accept proof they tested.

  one.  Inform your employee you received a second find they are out of testing compliance and inquire the employee what happened (ask if they tested/uploaded proof, and if non, why not).

  two.  If the employee did test, but exterior of the ARC, the ASB in Sacramento, or Salubrious Davis Together locations, remind them they need to upload proof.

  3.  If the employee has a reasonable explanation for why they were unable to comply with your beginning directive (family emergency, flat tire, testing site closure, etc.), straight them to exam immediately today while on work status.

  4.  If the employee did non follow your directive to test or is refusing to examination, contact your department'southward human resources contact or Human Resources Business Partner who will piece of work with Employee & Labor Relations/Bookish Affairs for assistance and support issuing appropriate discipline.

  (Updated Sept. 30, 2021)

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FAQs nigh testing on campus

• UPDATED: Who is able to have the test? What about contractors, visiting scholars, emeriti faculty members, temporary affiliates, vendors, visitors or others who come to campus?
• All registered UC Davis students and all UC Davis employees are eligible for testing at the ARC kiosk past making an engagement through the Health-eastward-Messaging organization. The requirement for employees specifically applies to employees who accept UCPath identification numbers. This means emeritus kinesthesia members are eligible because they have UCPath ID numbers — merely non temporary affiliates, who ordinarily practice not.

  All others — including temporary affiliates, visiting scholars, vendors, visitors, contractors and community members —  are also welcome to get tested at the ARC testing kiosk by making an appointment through Healthy Davis Together.

  Household members of UC Davis employees are now also eligible to get tested at Healthy Davis Together testing kiosks, whether or not they live or work in Davis themselves. Family members of UC Davis employees are also eligible for testing at the UC Davis Wellness testing location in the Administrative Services Building, 2450 48th St., in Sacramento. To fix appointments, register through the UC Davis Family Testing initiative (use code: UCDHFamilies). See "Can my family members become tested" for more than details.

  Here is another resources to find testing nearby.(Updated Sept. nine, 2021)

• UPDATED: Can my family members become tested with me?

• Family members of UC Davis employees are eligible for asymptomatic testing.

  In Davis: Register for appointments through Healthy Davis Together (use code: Davis when signing upwards)
  > See Healthy Davis Together website for other current locations

  In Sacramento: Register for appointments through the UC Davis Family unit Testing initiative (employ code: UCDHFamilies when signing up).

  > Sacramento: Weekdays
  Administrative Services Building
  (2450 48th Street, Sacramento)

  Delight note that UC Davis employees should continue to brand appointments for testing through the Health-e-Messaging portal, in club to meet requirements for accessing campus facilities. Health-east-Messaging does include appointments for employees at all possible locations. (Updated Aug. 20)

• UPDATED: Are UC Davis Health employees eligible to go tested? Exercise they need to go tested to access university facilities?
• Employees and students at UC Davis Wellness are eligible to go tested at the Davis campus testing kiosks or on the Sacramento campus. UC Davis Health as well requires unvaccinated employees and students to get tested at least every four days  every bit role of this testing plan. (Updated Sept. ix, 2021)
• What if I tin't log into the Wellness east-Messaging Portal?
• Simply currently registered students and UC Davis employees who have UCPath identification numbers should exist able to log into the Health east-Messaging Portal. If you are able to login, but cannot schedule an engagement, then please contact loginproblems@shcs.ucdavis.edu so Student Health staff members can troubleshoot your account. Student Health staff members are working to fix any login bug, and they appreciate your assistance in prioritizing which accounts need to be updated.
• UPDATED: I don't get to campus oftentimes. Can I get tested on the same solar day I visit campus? Exercise I need my test results before I can get to campus?
• Testing requirements for unvaccinated students and employees are no longer tied to how often you lot come up to campus. You will need to become tested at least every four days, if you're unvaccinated.

  If you are fully vaccinated, then y'all will need to get tested at least every fourteen days, if you access campus on a weekly footing. If you lot are fully vaccinated and admission campus less frequently than once per week, then you will demand to get tested earlier you admission campus facilities, either on the aforementioned twenty-four hour period you visit campus or upwardly to 14 days beforehand.

  Employees may get tested during work hours. Please note that testing availability volition vary each week and same-day testing appointments are not guaranteed, so we encourage yous to programme ahead equally much as possible to come across your requirements. (Updated Sept. fifteen, 2021)

• UPDATED: As an employee, do I need to come in earlier the commencement of my shift to become tested?
• Employees can get tested during work hours, as you volition be afforded paid release time for testing. To arrange a range of work schedules, the testing kiosk has extended hours on Wednesdays, 6 a.m.–6 p.m. Testing whatsoever time during a shift, including nigh the end of a shift, are also acceptable options every bit long equally you are testing often enough to be able to pass the Daily Symptom Survey. Delight consult with your supervisor for scheduling. (Updated June 18, 2021)
• It's been ii days since I was tested, but no results yet. Are my results missing? How can I find out my results?

• We continue to experience some delays in notifying participants of their test results. If yous take not received your test event after 48 hours, please log dorsum into the Health-e-Messaging Portal and check "Lab Results." A small-scale number of results may take up to 5 days before they are reported to the testing participant. This can be caused by a combination of timing between worker shifts, automobile errors, retesting samples and other troubleshooting that takes extra time to resolve. Delight note this delay does not indicate a positive or negative effect. We are making strides to reduce the frequency of these delays and seeking ways to notify participants if their results are among those taking longer to process. We repent for the delays and enquire for your patience in the meantime, thank you. (New equally of Dec. 11)

• Practice students or employees demand insurance to take this test?
• This test is free for all eligible students and employees. No insurance needed.
• UPDATED: I don't have a parking pass. Tin can I park for free while I go tested?
• There is free 30-minute parking in Lot 25 by the ARC for any testing participants. As more people are expected to get tested at the ARC this autumn, we encourage campus participants to consider biking or walking to the ARC for their testing date if possible, to avoid impacted parking lots. (Updated Sept. 9, 2021)
• UPDATED: What happens if an employee tests positive?

• IMPORTANT: Please review your test results in Wellness-east-Messaging equally soon as yous receive notification by email that your results are in. When a campus test comes back positive, you volition receive an email with isolation instructions and information on how to seek care and identify and inform close contacts. While you volition not exist contacted by phone by a member of the contact tracing team, please visit the contact tracing webpage for more than data on this process.

  Aggregated results from campus testing, including positivity rate, are shared publicly on the UC Davis COVID-19 Dashboard.

  Employees and students who receive a positive COVID-19 test result from off-campus testing are required to written report their diagnosis to UC Davis. Find out how to report COVID-19 if you test positive.

  With respect to paid leaves entitled to employees who test positive or are under a quarantine or isolation order, delight refer to the COVID-19 Leaves webpage, which continues to be updated.
• I'm concerned about getting tested indoors. Isn't ventilation important?
• In apprehension of winter weather, the testing kiosk has moved indoors to the four-court gym, as well called Room 125, at the Activities and Recreation Heart (ARC). Because this move would mean inviting groups of people indoors, a multidisciplinary team evaluated multiple indoor locations on campus to find a infinite that was big plenty and had acceptable ventilation controls to mitigate potential viral risks related to airflow. This room in the ARC is one of the almost voluminous on campus, has the ability to be fully ventilated with 100 percent outside air, and has MERV 13 filters, which are very efficient at removing coronavirus particulates from the air if temperatures outside drop likewise much for exterior air ventilation. The squad also performed smoke tests to bank check the apportionment within the infinite, and fabricated necessary upgrades to the HVAC system before confirming this indoor location for the testing kiosk. Learn more almost building ventilation and filtration on campus, from Facilities Management.
• I'thou concerned about getting exposed to the virus during the testing process. How is this process designed to proceed me prophylactic?
• Having an date helps keep the testing process moving quickly. The whole process usually takes 15 minutes or less.

  Students with symptoms tin get COVID-19 testing at Student Health subsequently a telehealth appointment with a Educatee Health provider. Testing participants at the ARC kiosk must pass the Daily Symptom Survey, so they practise not have symptoms and have non recently been a shut contact of someone diagnosed with COVID-19. Everyone must show that they've passed the Daily Symptom Survey before they tin get tested.

  While waiting, you are required to maintain physical distancing and article of clothing a face covering. Inside the ARC testing kiosk area, we are requiring that participants maintain extra physical distancing of 10 feet while they are indoors. You must sanitize your easily earlier and after the sample process.

  The testing kiosk workers also clothing gloves and sanitize their easily often when handling any of the testing materials, including the pipette seedling and straw. All the equipment used to cut and fill the bulbs/straws are new or sanitized each day, and the water is from sealed water bottles used only for that purpose. Workers all wear gloves in the spit station area and sanitize their station and hands afterward every client.

• Can I use this exam to meet travel requirements?
• UC Davis is currently discouraging non-essential travel, in accordance with CDC, country and Yolo County guidelines. Campus testing is a RT-qPCR examination used to detect whether someone is currently infected with the coronavirus, even though they do not have symptoms. Samples are candy in a CLIA-certified lab on campus, and results are available via the Educatee Health due east-Messaging portal. Travelers are responsible for determining whether this exam meets their needs regarding flying or entry requirements. You lot may besides consider using this tool to find more testing options nearby. For local travelers, there is testing at Sacramento International Airport that may be an choice for compliance with travel testing requirements. Each private should yet e'er bank check to brand sure state and land mandates are met with this or any exam.
• What if I have a question about testing that is not already answered?

• If y'all cannot observe an respond to your question about testing on the Campus Ready website:

  Educatee help with testing: If you do not find answers on this webpage or cannot discover your exam results, students tin can call (530) 752-6125 for more information.

  Employee help with testing: If you have additional questions near testing or your exam results, employees can e-mail occupationalhealth@ucdavis.edu for assist.

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Technical FAQs about the UC Davis rapid saliva examination

The saliva test used at UC Davis is a rapid test that detects whether someone is currently infected with the coronavirus. This is a laboratory adult test that uses a high throughput, existent time, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) protocol run on machines repurposed from the agricultural genetics industry. The saliva samples are processed at the UC Davis Genome Centre, which is a CLIA-certified extension of the UC Davis Educatee Health and Counseling Services CLIA license. Read more virtually what's behind the UC Davis COVID-xix saliva testing process.

• How does this test work?
• This protocol tests for the presence of ii viral genes, N1 and N2, in a saliva sample to identify if someone is acutely infected with COVID-xix. The test uses a protocol adapted from CDC-designed assays specific to the SARS-CoV-ii virus in order to detect the virus in saliva samples. SARS-CoV-2 RNA is more often than not detectable in saliva specimens during the acute phase of infection. Detection of the viral genes leads to a positive consequence.
• How accurate is it? What nigh faux positives or false negatives? How sensitive and specific is this test?

• All tests have a trade-off between the likelihood of false negatives and the likelihood of simulated positives, which is measured past a test's sensitivity and specificity.

  Sensitivity can exist considered in ii ways. The limit of detection can be determined by analyzing contrived samples containing known amounts of deactivated virus added in. This test's lower limit of detection was determined to be xv copies per microliter (µL) of saliva.  This represents a depression level of virus that is comparable to other tests authorized by the FDA for emergency use. Such low levels have been shown to exist rarely infectious in jail cell culture studies.

  The second way to measure out sensitivity is to compare it to clinical samples that have been declared positive or negative by an independent lab. On this basis, this test's sensitivity is currently calculated at 84–88%, which is considered adequately sensitive. This ways the examination will positively identify 84–88% of those who are really infected with COVID-xix. Information technology volition, withal, reliably detect people with high viral counts, who are the most likely to be infectious.

  Another way of looking at this test's sensitivity is that almost 12–16% of people who are actually infected volition receive a "false negative" result from this test because they have low levels of virus. This could exist because they are in the short menstruum during early stages of infection when the viral load is simply beginning to increase or in the longer flow of recovery afterward the infectious menses.

  The test uses the same PCR primers as previously validated for numerous FDA canonical tests, and it is therefore considered highly specific for SARS-CoV-2. Consequently, a positive result is therefore diagnostic of COVID-19. False positives are highly unlikely.

• Is this exam FDA approved?
• No, this test is not currently authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. This is a laboratory-adult test. The FDA is not currently required to review laboratory-developed tests and until recently has declined to review new requests for emergency apply authorizations (EUAs). At that place is signage to this result at the testing kiosk. The guidance on EUAs has recently changed and therefore we will be submitting an EUA to the FDA.
• How was this examination validated?
• To validate the test, the campus testing protocol was compared to a validated saliva-based test from Arizona Land University. ASU provided 50 positive and 50 negative samples; the FDA recommends at to the lowest degree xxx of each. The UC Davis test accomplished high concordance up to the limit of detection. The exam's limit of detection was determined by testing contrived samples containing known amounts of deactivated virus. The lab manager for Pupil Health and Counseling Services approved the validation of this UC Davis rapid saliva test based on the validation data as recommended by FDA.
• What genes does the test target? What about the endogenous control?
• The test targets the N1 and N2 gene of SARS-CoV-two using primers approved by the FDA. Human RNaseP is used as the endogenous control every bit approved past FDA.
• What is the cycle threshold for this testing process?
• The cycle threshold (Ct) values volition vary by examination and machine. The Ct value for our limit of detection as defined by the FDA is 32. All the same, the exam can discover the virus at higher Ct values (lower viral loads). The cut-off for calling a positive is the FDA recommended value of <forty. However, nosotros rarely obtain Ct values greater than 35.
• UPDATED: Are samples genotyped and sequenced?

• All samples that test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are now genotyped to monitor for currently known variants of concern using assays for at least vii diagnostic, single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Nearly positive samples are likewise later sequenced to confirm results and reveal the presence of whatsoever novel changes to the viral genome. Data on COVID-19 variants are available on the Health Davis Together website. (Updated July sixteen, 2021)

• Are samples batch tested?
• Samples are tested in batches of upwards to 760 as individual samples. Samples are not pooled. The auto is sufficiently high throughput that pooling is not necessary or desirable. Pooling would increase the complexity of the workflow and boring the render of results by at to the lowest degree a twenty-four hours.
• UPDATED: I'm concerned about privacy. Who volition have access to our results?

• The Genome Center receives each saliva sample in a bar-coded tube with a handwritten date of birth. The lab reports a result for that barcode to the Student Health and Counseling Services secure database. The testing lab does non take admission to the results except in an anonymous form. The handwritten appointment of birth serves equally a backup confirmation of identity in case at that place are questions about a positive upshot.

  From the database, employees from Student Wellness and from Occupational Wellness — all of whom are trained to maintain HIPAA compliance — connect the issue to the individual tested.

  If you exam positive, you lot will receive a phone call from a campus medical provider with data most your results and next steps. You lot will too be contacted by the campus contact tracing team. The confidentiality of individuals with positive results will exist protected, and their name and COVID-19 condition volition not be shared with close contacts.

  Positive test results are likewise reported to the Yolo Canton Public Wellness Section, in accordance with CDC guidance, state and county requirements and as mandated by law. (Updated Sept. 9, 2021)

• UPDATED: What will happen to my saliva sample? Are the samples being used for inquiry?

• All saliva samples are stored in a cold room for at least a few days in case a sample needs to be rerun.

  All positive samples are then stored frozen in a freezer, for use in quality control and protocol comeback. A few negative samples will be kept as controls.

  All positive samples are also genotyped to monitor for known SARS-CoV-2 variants, and some are too sequenced to confirm results and reveal the presence of any novel changes to the viral genome. Data on COVID-19 variants are bachelor on the Health Davis Together website.

  Currently the saliva samples are non being used for inquiry. If in the hereafter the Genomics Lab team is interested in pursuing enquiry using saliva samples from this testing process, then they will guided by the Institutional Review Board procedure, and a consent course for optional research will be made available for testing participants to decide if they want to consent to participating in the research or non. (Updated Sept. 9, 2021)

• UPDATED: Why does campus permit an employee or student to access facilities on the same day they get tested, earlier they have received a negative test issue?

• Our goal is to test asymptomatic members of our campus community frequently, in order to rapidly identify individuals who may be contagious and to monitor the infection rates of our community. Participating in this routine testing program is valuable for our community, and we aim to make this procedure as easy and convenient as possible.

  Routine testing is a public health program aimed to reduce chance, simply it does not guarantee that anyone accessing campus facilities is negative for the coronavirus.

  Information technology is important to understand the limitations of a negative test result. Even with rapid, regular testing, someone can get infected and get contagious in between their tests. Through multiple layers of public health precautions and responses, nosotros are doing our best to reduce the number of people who are unknowingly i infectious and to mitigate potential spread.

  Nosotros encourage everyone to human activity as if those around them are potentially positive for the virus. (Updated Sept. 9, 2021)

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Testing rollout: From student move-in, to Davis community

Students living on campus with Educatee Housing and Dining Services were beginning required to become tested for COVID-19 earlier moving into their residences in September 2020. Pupil residents continued to be tested throughout the school yr on at least a weekly footing.

During the initial airplane pilot phase, the saliva screening process was backed upwardly with a more traditional, certified testing procedure using nasal swabs. Equally part of the airplane pilot phase, UC Davis students residing at The Green and in Sorority and Fraternity residences were also eligible to begin testing, as were educatee firefighters and EMTs living on campus. First responder and frontline wellness employees on the UC Davis campus were too invited to participate in testing during the pilot phase. After the saliva examination was validated, additional groups of students and employees were invited to brainstorm participating in the testing plan (see the telescopic of the COVID-19 testing and screening programme for more than details).

Weekly testing is now available for all UC Davis students and employees. The UC Davis COVID-nineteen Dashboard provides weekly updates on the number of tests and positive results. Additional saliva-based testing kiosks were also opened every bit role of the Healthy Davis Together initiative to serve the needs of Yolo county residents and workers.

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Source: https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/testing-response/covid19-screening

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