A study involving more than 500 essential workers at CSU early in the pandemic correlated very low infection rates with very high rates of public health-protective behaviors.
While the spread of COVID-19 slowed in the spring and early summer of this year, the CSU Pandemic Preparedness Team has not wavered in its commitment to addressing public health concerns for our university.
Building on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Colorado State University has received a $2 million commitment from The Anschutz Foundation to further the development of new solutions for building resilience and agility in stopping infectious disease transmission among animals and people.
Fortunately, infected cats appear to show mild symptoms at most. “I am still a bit surprised that cats are so readily infected and yet rarely exhibit any signs of illness,” said Dr. Angela Bosco-Lauth, a biomedical researcher at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences who was not involved with the research.
Rebekah Kading, a virologist at Colorado State University, and her team are studying bats in eastern Uganda to determine how diseases spread between the animals and humans.
As a veterinary microbiologist at Colorado State University, Anna Fagre is used to studying viruses in animals. But over the last six months, Fagre and scientists like her have been consumed by the opposite problem: stopping humans from passing a deadly virus on to animals.
This fall certainly will bring a more familiar look and feel on our campuses, and it also will set the stage for continued innovation in learning and work life that emerged from our strategic management of COVID-19.
Gain-of-function experiments may help researchers test scientific theories, develop new technologies and find treatments for infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.
A crew of CSU students worked early mornings and weekends, in all sorts of weather, to help keep campus open throughout the pandemic and academic year.