Touro University California medical students Michael Gloudeman (right) and Isabella Hamilton have successfully implemented an efficient COVID-19 screening procedure at Mare Island Dry Dock. Their system has worked so well that the city of Vallejo has taken notice. (Photos courtesy of Gloudeman and Hamilton)

As the Bay Area grapples with the pandemic, essential workers from every industry continue to show up to work, often without rigorous safeguards to protect them from viral transmission. 

That is the case at Mare Island Dry Dock, LLC (MIDD), where dozens of workers mill about the 18-acre site, the noise of buzzing tools, sparking metal, and massive machinery drowning out the sounds of the Mare Island Strait. On any given day, ships from around the world — cruise ships, U.S. military ships, commercial freighters — will dock at the facility for repairs, forcing dock employees to work in confined spaces and increasing their risk of exposure to a virus that has touched every part of the globe.

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