Infectious-disease specialist Taison Bell at the University of Virginia questions how the authors define severe COVID-19, which factors into the assessment of fluvoxamine’s efficacy. The team examined whether people needed more than six hours of treatment in an emergency setting, rather than using the more common metric of hospitalization. Reiersen says the six-hour metric reflects Brazil’s approach to managing COVID-19, in which care is delivered not in hospitals, but in COVID-19-specific emergency treatment centres that provide both inpatient and outpatient services.
Douglas Laycock, a nationally recognized religious liberty expert who has argued in six religious liberty cases at the Supreme Court, said he’s against religious exemptions amid vaccine mandates. The UVA law professor even filed a supporting brief for the Colorado baker who denied a wedding cake to a gay couple. “The right to religious exemptions is fundamental. I support it. But it’s never been absolute,” Laycock said.
Dr. Patrick Jackson with the University of Virginia has advice for people looking to get vaccinated. Jackson says COVID-19 vaccines have a very low myocarditis or heart inflammation risk, however the risk is highest in young men. He says says the Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not have any association with this side effect and could be the best choice for some.
A key difference is the new plan is signed by several countries that were missing last time, including those with the worst levels of deforestation. Brazil, where deforestation rates have rocketed under President Jair Bolsonaro, is chief among those. “Having all the main players on it is significant, that is a big step,” says Stephanie Roe at the University of Virginia.
Bertrall Ross, a UVA law professor with expertise in voting rights, says the increase in voting access could have bipartisan effects, despite being implemented under a Democratic majority. “The conventional wisdom is that increased voting access will help Democrats in elections because Democrats traditionally draw from lower-income classes where the cost barriers to voting are particularly felt,” he said. “But what this conventional wisdom overlooks is the changing demographics of the Republican Party over the past decade.”
In both Colorado and Virginia, Democrats may lose congressional seats despite their growing political strength, said J. Miles Coleman, a political cartographer at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In Virginia, a state [President Joe] Biden won by 10 points, you have a situation where you could have a majority GOP delegation [in Congress]. That will be very frustrating to Democrats,” Coleman said. “Democrats’ frustration with independent commissions is a theme I see emerging.”
(By Julia F. Taylor and Sara Groff Stephens, assistant professors of pediatrics) Eating disorders began to spike among young people shortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts believe the increase occurred due to disruptions in daily living, emotional distress and more time spent on social media – which research has shown can lead to lower self-esteem and negative body image.
Several studies have documented health care laundry facilities as sources of nosocomial outbreaks of fungal and bacterial infections, but new research published in the July 2021 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases creates a roadmap for identifying and remediating these outbreaks. According to researchers with the University of Pittsburgh, University of Minnesota Department of Environmental Health and Safety, and the UVA Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, collaboration between hospital infection prevention experts and laundry facility leadership is key in creating a tar...
A lot of conversations around diversity focus on identity-based factors such as race and gender, but there is a growing appreciation for the importance of thought diversity to a team. A study from UVA’s Darden School of Business took this a step further and explored the impact of class diversity on the success of a team. The study focused particular attention on what the authors refer to as ‘social class transitioners,’ who are people that have managed to progress between socioeconomic classes during their life, and it emerged that those who were able to do that brought particular value to the...
For nearly two years, researchers tracked air quality disparities between low-income neighborhoods of color and high-income white neighborhoods in Jacksonville and more than 50 other U.S. cities. The recently published study, co-authored by University of Virginia atmospheric chemist Sally Pusede, focused on levels of NO2, or nitrogen dioxide — an air pollutant released from fossil fuels that can cause and exacerbate chronic health problems like asthma.
Michael Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He is the coauthor of “Can Business Save the Earth? Innovating Our Way to Sustainability” and “The Strategist’s Toolkit.” Rebecca Duff is Senior Research Associate with the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She also serves as the managing director for Darden’s Business Innovation and Climate Change Initiative. They are co-authors of the new book “The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050,” wher...
(Podcast) Alexandra Feldberg and Tami Kim, assistant professors at Harvard Business School and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, respectively, say companies are overlooking an important place to root out bias: on the front lines with customers. While many firms are promoting a more equitable workforce through their HR functions, too few firms even realize how costly bias can be in everyday interactions between workers and customers. The researchers explain how organizations can identify and address this overlooked problem.
New K-12 instructors often learn teaching methods by trial and error, receiving little or no formal coaching before their careers begin. In a new working paper published by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, researchers at the University of Virginia explore the positive impact of providing robust, individualized coaching supports to prospective educators enrolled in teacher-education programs or undergraduate courses.
Models with UVA’s Biocomplexity institute indicate several possible paths forward. Some show cases will continue to drop in the coming weeks, yet others hint at another climb mainly due to the upcoming holiday season.
The Virginia Catalyst, also known as the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp., has awarded $1.9 million in grants to three life and bioscience projects, including two with ties to UVA.
The University of Virginia ($69,800) and Virginia Tech ($67,900), which are growing their presences in Northern Virginia, would both place highly on our list. Virginia Tech is building a $1 billion graduate school campus in Alexandria focused on computer science education, while UVA recently announced plans to increase its presence in Rosslyn — and hinted at expansion to other sites in the region.
It may not turn you into a cyborg or the Six Million Dollar Man, but it could help you walk straighter and ease skeletal back pain. UVA physicians have begun using a new, 3-D-printed, titanium back spacer designed to fit individual patients suffering from spinal deformities, whether from natural causes or traumas.
(Commentary by Jennifer Lawless, Leone Reeves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics, and Paul Freedman, associate professor of politics) Despite the partisan discord, new data from our statewide survey of 1,046 registered voters in Virginia suggests that Democrats and Republicans actually agree on something! Unfortunately, where they find consensus is around the notion that democracy is in danger.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said the Virginia results flag trouble ahead. “People want COVID solved, supply chains solved, inflation solved, other economic problems solved,” he said. “They haven’t seen what they expected to see, which was a very competent president putting a check mark next to each problem as he solved it. That’s what people were expecting after Trump.”
Believing he should become a white-collar professional like his classmates’ fathers, Larry Kosilla attended the University of Virginia and went to work on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange in Lower Manhattan. He assumed you showed up for the job you hated in order to afford the thing you loved – in his case, luxury sports cars. But after a year, he was so miserable he quit.