There are several reasons our vaccine options have outstripped treatments. The first is cost-effectiveness: While vaccines are expensive and time-consuming to develop, they have the potential to stop the pandemic. Treatments only help those already sick, so are less valuable to governments overall. “I’m not surprised that there’s been more aggressive funding to work with vaccines, because I think, in the end, that’s how we’re going to turn the tide on this,” Taison Bell, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Virginia, said.
These and other results largely failed to impress experts, many of whom said the drug would need to have far bigger benefits to outweigh its price tag and potential harms. “It seems more incremental than blockbuster,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia, who was involved in the clinical trial. Although Bell described baricitinib as a reasonable addition to the COVID treatment toolbox and even deserving of an emergency approval, “I don’t think it’s a game changer,” he said.
These and other results largely failed to impress experts, many of whom said the drug would need to have far bigger benefits to outweigh its price tag and potential harms. “It seems more incremental than blockbuster,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia, who was involved in the clinical trial. Although Bell described baricitinib as a reasonable addition to the COVID treatment toolbox and even deserving of an emergency approval, “I don’t think it’s a game changer,” he said.
(Commentary by Russell L. Riley, White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program) Donald Trump plays only a bit part in Jonathan Alter’s splendid new biography of Jimmy Carter. His name is mentioned on just 17 of the book’s nearly 800 pages, slightly more exposure than Trump got in “Home Alone 2.” But it is hard to read this volume without the mind’s eye turning constantly to the president who was in office as Alter was writing. Why? Because no two presidents in the history of the republic are more unalike i...
(Commentary co-written by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking) As President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees have been named, much of the discussion has been about their ideological leanings. Is Biden balancing the moderate and progressive wings of his party in a meaningful way? This is too narrow a focus. After all, who cares how “liberal” cabinet members are if they are – ultimately – ineffective? What if they lack the expertise or the temperament to reach across the aisle to get things done?
So how did we get to this point? To find out, Stacker compiled a list of important moments in journalism history between 1921 and 2020. It looked at information from think tanks, such as the Pew Research Center and Brookings Institution; universities, including the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Kansas; and journalism-focused publications, like the Columbia Journalism Review. And of course, it also looked at archival articles from major media, like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
(Editorial) Why should we care about school closures and the housing market in Japan? Because what Japan is going through is exactly what most localities in Southside and Southwest Virginia are going through. They’re losing population. A few years ago we consulted Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. He computed that over the next decade, the number of people dying each year in the coalfields should rise to between 3,000 and 3,500— while the number of babies born will fall to about 1,700 per year.
A warning from women’s health providers in these pandemic times: A new study shows a dangerous trend in many of those who have delivered a baby this year. It appears the toll is on a mothers’ mental health. The study by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Virginia School of Medicine is not yet published.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center are working on turning microscopic fat balls, called lipid nanoparticles, into tiny bombs that will attach to genes of breast cancer cells to stunt their growth and thwart their expansion.
Doctors from the University of Virginia School of Medicine are tackling two diseases that, when both are contracted by a person, kill up to half of the people who get them. According to a release, this is an effort in sub-Saharan Africa to target sepsis and tuberculosis.
Health experts at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine are launching new efforts to combat sepsis infections that could save millions of lives in sub-Saharan Africa.
To help combat the anticipated spike in coronavirus cases following Thanksgiving, a community COVID-19 testing event was held at Albemarle High School on December 5. It was designed for anyone in the community, but priority was given to employees at the University of Virginia, Albemarle County Schools and City of Charlottesville Schools.
UVA Health confirmed in an email to employees Friday, December 4, that the University of Virginia Medical Center is in a surge of coronavirus cases. While central Virginia’s hospitals have not been overwhelmed by COVID-19 to this point, the growing need is forcing them to shift priorities.
The University of Virginia has seen a 35% increase in its early decision applications compared with the prior year, and a 15% increase in early action applicants, The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper, reported last month.
The situation in Virginia mirrors that in much of the country, according to the latest weekly report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. Cases are surging nationally, and 37 states are in surge trajectories, including most in the mid-Atlantic.
During the holiday, there was a sharp drop off in the number of COVID-19 nasal swab tests reported. Testing in Virginia peaked Nov. 18, at just over 34,000 a day, then plunged below 20,000 in the days following Thanksgiving, according to an analysis by the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute.
In one of the most turbulent years ever, this year’s MBA ranking reflects the calm in the middle of the pandemic storm. For the second consecutive year, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business took top honors in Poets&Quants’ 2020-2021annual ranking of the best MBA programs in the U.S., and every single Top Ten school from last year made the list this time around. [The Darden School of Business ranks No. 11.)
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia has won the top spot of Project of the Year by The Architect’s Newspaper, as well as earning best public and social impact honors.
A national newspaper has honored a local memorial to enslaved laborers. According to a release, Architect’s Newspaper selected the University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers as its Project of the Year in the 2020 Best of Design Awards.
There were objects that projected information loud and clear, as was the case with commemorative political monuments after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Two that made news this year were in Virginia. In Richmond, protesters transformed a colossal statue of Robert E. Lee into a jubilant paean to Black Lives Matter. And in Charlottesville, the scene of a violent 2017 Unite the Right rally, a new “Memorial to Enslaved Laborers” was installed at the University of Virginia, on a campus famously designed by Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, and built, brick by brick, by enslaved ...