Infectious disease modelers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute caution that a large surge is still possible. About 2.6 million Virginians have not had any shots.
Infectious disease modelers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute caution that a large surge is still possible. About 2.6 million Virginians have not had any shots.
ROTC cadets at the University of Virginia are participating in a vigil for veterans, prisoners of war, and those missing in action. On Monday, the cadets will begin marching across the McIntire Amphitheater stage for 24 hours. They will switch out in half-hour intervals. This annual tradition is done in preparation for Veterans Day on Nov. 11.
A recent study of patients in Brazil showed that a low-cost antidepressant is effective in keeping high-risk COVID-19 patients out of intensive care units, but the hypothesis at the center of the study started right here in Charlottesville. The study evolved from a UVA medical researcher’s study of the drug, called fluvoxamine.
(Co-written by Daniel W. Gingerich, associate professor of politics, director of the Quantitative Collaborative, and co-director of the Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability and the Rule of Law) The legacy of the Black Death goes well beyond human suffering. The unparalleled pandemic did not just devastate the population in the areas it hit the hardest; it killed off entire social and economic institutions – especially ones that had, up until that point, restricted human freedom and stifled prosperity.
It’s a piece of doctorly advice you have probably heard dozens of times: “Drink plenty of fluids.” But have you ever wondered what it actually means? How much is “plenty,” what kinds of “fluids” are best and why do you need them? “That’s a great question,” says Mitchell Rosner, a nephrologist who focuses on fluid and electrolyte disorders and is the chair of UVA’s Department of Medicine.
Relative to Northam, McAuliffe’s share of the vote consistently declined more in the southern half of the state, an area with relatively fewer college graduates, than it did in more white-collar Northern Virginia. “An engaged GOP base delivered Republicans even bigger landslides than usual in rural central and western Virginia,” the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics wrote in its analysis of the results yesterday. “In 2013, McAuliffe lost the 9th Congressional District, in the southwestern corner of the state, by about 30 percentage points. Last night … McAuliffe’s deficit there fell...
(Commentary) Republican politicians like Glenn Youngkin oppose vaccine mandates in general. But he was smart enough to couple his opposition to mandates with enthusiasm for the vaccines. That turned out to be a winning strategy which enabled him to take the issue of vaccines off the table and focus on education, crime, and the economy. The University of Virginia Center for Politics notes that Republicans swept Virginia on Tuesday night, “winning statewide for the first time in a dozen years and running much better than they did in the Trump years.”
It’s not just partisan who see good recruitment news for Republicans in the results from Tuesday night. Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia made a series of race ratings changes in the wake of the 2021 results. “If [President Joe] Biden’s approval rating is in the low-to-mid 40s next year, as it is now, everything we know about political trends and history suggests that the Democrats’ tiny majorities in the House and Senate are at major risk of becoming minorities,” wrote Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman. They changed four races -- all in Republicans’...
Is Joe Manchin the James Comey of the 2021 elections? That’s what some are suggesting: That by announcing problems with fellow Democrats’ spending plans at a fiery news conference the day before Election Day, the West Virginia moderate all but handed his party a series of losses or close races – especially in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. “There are lots of reasons why a candidate doesn’t win, but at the end of the day, there’s usually a straw that breaks the camel’s back,” said Jennifer Lawless, chair of the political science department at the University of Virginia. And in this case, I thin...
Democrats may control the White House, but Republican campaigns built back better. The party won the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and a majority of the General Assembly in Virginia on Tuesday. They also came within one percent of taking the governor’s mansion in New Jersey. These are two states Joe Biden won by 10-points and 16-points respectively in 2020. Though some could brush these outcomes as a fluke, University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato believes this may be a sign of things to come. “This is a very high DEFCON rating for Democrats, that’s what this ...
Democrats are not only reeling from Terry McAuliffe’s loss to Virginia GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, but they stand to lose even more in the 2022 midterms. The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Crystal Ball has downgraded Democratic senators in four key midterm races, and Director Larry Sabato told CNN on Wednesday that under the current conditions of President Joe Biden’s administration, Republicans will take control of the House and Senate after the midterm.
Also on Wednesday, University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato and his Crystal Ball elections prognosticator moved U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection bid from “leans Democratic” to “toss-up.” The Virginia results, according to Sabato, show the political environment for Warnock’s reelection is getting worse. Other vulnerable senators in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada received the same analysis.
(Commentary by Mary Kate Clary, lecturer in politics and Senior fellow at the Miller Center) What I heard in the runup to the Nov. 2 elections was that students are increasingly worried about the job market and the economy they’ll be walking into upon graduation; they are concerned about rising crime rates in Charlottesville, where they attend college; and they wonder if they’ll be able to freely express their opinions – left or right – here at the university. So it was no surprise to me that exit polls of Virginia voters this week showed that the economy and education were voters’ top concern...
Democrats will face challenges because of geography and redistricting, said Jennifer Lawless, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “But they can actually take a big lesson out of Tuesday and pass (the infrastructure and reconciliation) bills,” she told USA TODAY, pointing to Biden’s two pieces of legislation still being debated in Congress. “They need to demonstrate that unified control in Washington, in fact, does deliver to voters across the country,” she added. “They weren’t able to do that this time.”
Linwood Holton was followed by Mills Godwin, a longtime Democrat who won a nonconsecutive second term as governor in 1973 after switching his party affiliation during the campaign to Republican. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, worked on the 1973 campaign as a college student. He said Godwin waited until the Republican state convention before formally switching parties and accepting the GOP nomination. “He wanted to run as an independent,” Sabato said.
Anyone who is a Hallmark movie fanatic, like yours truly, is familiar with Roanoke native and University of Virginia grad Jen Lilley. The spirited and friendly actress stars in many of Hallmark’s most beloved films, think “Mingle All The Way”; “Winter Love Story”; “Love Unleashed”; “Paris, Wine & Romance”; and one of last year’s holiday favorites, “USS Christmas.”
Tim Brown is not your typical student. He served in the Navy for eight years before coming to the University of Virginia, but he’s here for the same reason as everyone else: To get an education. “We’re regular people,” said Brown. “We like to hang out, we like to have fun, we’re intellectually curious just like everyone else.” He’s one of about 65 student veterans currently studying at UVA, many of whom are using their GI Bill to go to school.
Legal experts have warned that a section of the Infrastructure Bill, which is due for a vote on Friday, amends a part of the tax code and makes a failure by businesses and individuals to report digital asset transactions a criminal offense. University of Virginia School of Law lecturer Abraham Sutherland said it is a separate provision to the controversial “broker” provision that attracted all the attention when the bill was in the Senate: “It’s bad for all users of digital assets, but it’s especially bad for decentralized finance. The statute would not ban DeFi outright. Instead, it imposes r...
“I believe that the [Jefferson School] proposal, in and of itself, is an important opportunity for us as a community in creating something,” Larycia Hawkins, a University of Virginia faculty member with a joint appointment in the politics and religious studies departments, told Council. “The opportunity to not only heal, but to re-narrate history, to create new and different kinds of memories in place of the lasting memory of oppression of the previous statues.”