In a matter of weeks, the resulting effort by a multi-site analytics team of 30 people established the University of California COVID Research Data Set (UC CORDS), one of the nation’s first COVID-19-focused sets of real-time data from patient encounters. UC CORDS has been the basis for insights crucial to fighting the virus as well as understanding the risk and outcomes of illness for diverse populations. Jonathan Watanabe, Pharm.D., Ph.D., associate dean of Pharmacy Assessment and Quality, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and professor of Clinical Pharmacy at UC Irvine, first identified trends in age, comorbidities, and hospitalization for COVID-19. Yong Huang, a computer scientist and Ph.D. student at UC Irvine’s HealthSciTech Lab, produced a groundbreaking view of “long COVID” highlighting a greater risk for women to develop “long-haul” syndrome; other UC researchers have investigated gender and PCR test sensitivity, racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 illness among patients with preexisting dermatological conditions, and more.
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