It doesn’t take much for those kinds of temperatures to cause harm to a person. “The cause of death with hypothermia would just be a cardiac arrest, the heart eventually stops,” said Dr. Bill Petri at UVA Health.
Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine and vice chair for research at UVA’s Department of Medicine, said that both the flu and COVID-19 infect the epithelial cells in the lungs, and that infection could worsen as more cells get involved. He stressed that with vaccines and boosters, along with mask wearing, social distancing, and COVID-19 testing, the “individual has some ability to chart their own course.”
“WhatsApp worked as an ecosystem [where Bolsonaro’s supporters] produced and circulated their news, which is basically fake news. But because WhatsApp has been working to slow down misinformation, they then migrated to Telegram,” said David Nemer, a Brazilian professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
“The whole idea here is to push the frontiers of robotics and artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles in general, and we do so by demonstrating how stable our cars are, that they can really go safely at 150 mph.” said UVA computer science professor Madhur Behl, who also serves as principal for the Cavalier Autonomous Racing Team.
“I think that it’s just harder to make Trump an issue when he is not actually president. Biden is president now and particularly in off-year, midterm elections, those elections are often a referendum on the sitting president,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Law professor Deirdre Enright, founder of the UVA Innocence Project, helped investigate Johnson’s case and confirm the real robber. She said she was mystified about why the Northam administration couldn’t act on the request for an absolute pardon in four years when the facts McAuliffe had remain the same. “It’s a slam dunk on innocence,” she said. “We’ve solved the crime, we got an affidavit from the guy who did it. ... I just don’t understand what the problem is.”
(Co-written by Katherine Basbaum, clinical dietitian at UVA Health) As a registered dietitian, I’ve always promoted and followed the “all foods fit” mentality. This means that, as long as the majority of your meals and snacks are prepared with nutritious foods, then small indulgences are fine. For as long as I can remember, chocolate has been one of the tiny indulgences I allowed myself.
Among Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2022,” is UVA English professor Lisa Russ Spaar’s novel, “Paradise Close,” coming out in April. A poet who has published seven books of poetry and edited five anthologies, this is her first novel.
Apioneer of medical care who treated all of his patients with the same kindness, Culpeper native Robert “Bobby” Lee Wilson passed away Jan. 5 at the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 76. Wilson was the first male nurse to ever work in the Culpeper hospital – now the UVA Culpeper Medical Center – and helped set the standard for care.
The American Red Cross likes to keep a five-day supply on hand to support area hospitals like UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in case of emergency, but right now, it’s down to less than a day’s supply.
On Monday, the UVA Medical Center admitted 20 new patients with COVID-19, a record for the medical center since it started publicly tracking the data, and the medical center has 106 COVID-19 patients overall. That increase has ripple effects to other parts of the hospital system, said Dr. Michael Williams, a surgeon at the medical center and director of UVA’s Center for Health Policy.
According to UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, the majority of their admitted COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated. “I think it’s very reasonable to say that between 65% and 80%, and the number varies, of the patients that are admitted with symptomatic COVID infections have not been vaccinated,” Dr. John Voss, a UVA general internist, said.
UVA is getting $44,570 in a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant toward creating a digital weather records resource for North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Treatment for high blood pressure, a condition that affects one billion people globally, may actually be damaging the kidney, new research from the UVA School of Medicine suggests. Scientists are urging studies to better understand the drugs’ long-term effects.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reach record highs, Gov. Ralph Northam said his new State of Emergency declaration is aimed to help hospitals address bed and staffing shortages. However, the emergency declaration is only set to last 30 days based on modeling on how the current surge of cases could play out. The model has been developed by a team of UVA researchers throughout the pandemic.
UVA researchers have been producing forecast models of the COVID-19 picture in Virginia since the start of the pandemic, but have had to make some adjustments due to curveballs from the omicron variant. “Most recently with this omicron surge we are seeing unprecedented levels of cases,” Bryan Lewis, an associate research professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said. That meant recently adjusting from a more conservative forecast to align with what Virginia is actually seeing.
(Press release) The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 SAH IDEAS Research Fellowship, a new award intended to support a cohort of five emerging scholars per year who self-identify as members of marginalized groups. … Louis P. Nelson, vice provost for academic outreach and professor of architectural history, will mentor Dwight Carey, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College, while UVA alumnus Robert Louis Brandon Edwards also was selected for a fellowship.
In the Blue Ridge Health District, there were nearly 360 new COVID-19 cases and more than 1,000 people in the hospital on Tuesday. UVA students will still be starting in-person classes on Jan. 19. “An in-person residential academic experience is a core part of what it means to live, learn or work at UVA,” said UVA spokesperson Brian Coy.
On Dec. 6, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey released the largest-ever detailed census of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, with the complete release of data from its Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. “For the last decade we have been working to map the Milky Way, and measure extremely detailed properties of the stars within it,” said UVA’s Steven Majewski, who has been principal investigator of APOGEE since 2006.
(Commentary by Pamela Cipriano, dean of the School of Nursing) Nurses frequently run toward danger and crisis, but do we do that only when we see a crisis or the emerging symptoms of a threatening situation? Climate change is staring us all in the face, and we now have an opportunity to slow or stop the resulting suffering.