The rise in cases is putting a strain on resources at the University of Virginia Medical Center. “We also have seen some shortages of medications, for example, associated with COVID-19,” Dr. Patrick Jackson said. “One drug that’s in national shortage right now is a drug called Tocilizumab. It’s a drug that’s used for the most severe cases of COVID-19 and it’s also used to manage some side effects of kind of a last line cancer treatment.”
Stephen Rich’s group at UVA along with John Todd’s team at the University of Oxford, have been tracing the genes responsible for type 1 diabetes for years. In 2009 the team conducted the largest GWAS metanalysis of type 1 diabetes, identifying 60 loci that likely influenced incidence. Since then, they’ve used increasingly sophisticated technologies to better understand the genetic underpinnings of this complex disease.
The National Science Foundation is funding a $697,914 research project led by a Washington University professor and other researchers to study how Black parents speak to their children about racial violence. Sheretta Butler-Barnes, an associate professor in the Brown School at Wash U, will work with researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Forecasting the course of the coronavirus pandemic – now poised to extend into a second full year – is sometimes like the weather. When there’s a threat of severe storms or flooding, phones often buzz with alerts. For the researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, the warning system is similar. When scientists see trends for increased COVID-19 caseloads, they sound the alarms so the public is aware of the threat.
Another study from the University of Virginia, published as a research letter in JAMA on September 2, found there was no difference in antibody response between age groups with Moderna’s vaccine, but that Pfizer’s produced a lower antibody response in people aged 50 and older. The researchers said that the differences between the vaccines could “relate” to the amount of mRNA in them.
People who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had “slightly higher” antibody levels than those who received the Pfizer, now formally called Comirnaty, shot, according to a new small study. While both vaccines insert molecules called mRNA that teach our bodies how to produce coronavirus antibodies, the Moderna shot uses more than three times the amount of mRNA than the Pfizer vaccine. This, the University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers say, could explain their findings.
According to DeCelles and colleagues from UVA, the University of Toronto, Duke University and Harvard University, a suspect’s angry reaction to being accused is often used as an indicator of the person’s guilt, even though “such anger is an invalid cue of guilt and is instead a valid cue of innocence.”
UVA’s Miller Center, which focuses on presidential and political history, has created a site entitled “Remembering September 11.” It compiles the Miller Center’s vast library of 9/11 resources into one place. The offerings include a timeline of events on 9/11, oral histories by leading government officials, recordings of the center’s many events on 9/11, and more.
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center; free registration required) Where were you on 9/11? Memories of that horrific day are seared into the national consciousness, much like those of Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The latter date marked the demise of our 35th commander-in-chief, while Sept. 11, 2001 witnessed the creation of the 43rd. Yes, George W. Bush had taken office seven months earlier, but the terrorist attacks thrust the mantle of wartime leader up...
To know Brad Tazewell is to know the Norfolk skyline. His firm, Williams and Tazewell Architects, worked on the Norfolk Southern Tower and the Bank of America office building, among many others in that city and across Hampton Roads. For those who worked for him — many who went to start their own architecture firms — E. Bradford Tazewell Jr. was an exacting boss who required a strong eye for detail. He died last week at the age of 95. He was a World War II veteran and University of Virginia graduate who had a lasting legacy in Tidewater for his design work on several well-known buildings. He al...
University of Virginia Health officials are encouraging Cavalier football fans to wear masks through all four quarters of Saturday’s season opener, saying it is the best defense against COVID-19’s game-changing delta variant.
Part of the city funding will go toward an article written by Madison Wilson, a historic preservation graduate student at UVa and intern with the historical society who has been working on the project.
Zainora Babayee, 23, a junior at the University of Virginia, said she's living through the "darkest days" of her life. The oldest of seven siblings, Babayee grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, where her father worked as a private contractor with U.S. special operations forces. She said she had little understanding of why U.S. forces were there. She recalls listening to the news as a young girl when she first heard the phrase 9/11, thinking it was "some fancy word" she didn't know.
One moment, they may be doing homework, and seconds later, answering a call that could save someone's life. Most of the Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department firefighters are currently enrolled University of Virginia students.
Max A. Luna of Charlottesville, director, Latino Health Initiative and vice chair of diversity, equity and community engagement, department of medicine, University of Virginia, was appointed to the Virginia Latino Advisory Board.
Tina Thompson’s 7,488 career points rank second in WNBA history. A four-time champion with the Comets, she was an eight-time All-WNBA pick and was selected to participate in nine All-Star Games. Thompson is currently the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, argues Christie’s biggest advantage at the moment is that he’s keeping Trump at bay and out of his line of sight considering the former president’s unique ability to metaphorically “explode” any rising star’s lead in early polls “in an instant.” “They all have the same problem with Trump,” Sabato said, referring to Trump’s intense base. “If Christie starts rising in the polls, Trump is gonna find 10 other reasons why he doesn’t like him.”
State lawmakers have begun the politically-charged process of drawing new district boundaries based on data from the 2020 census. “There are a lot of moving pieces in Ohio. And there are a lot of possible outcomes, I think,” said Kyle Kondik, an Ohio native who analyzes elections for the University of Virginia.
If Youngkin can pull off a victory in Virginia, his success could provide a roadmap for Republican candidates running in the 2022 midterm elections. Republicans’ hopes of capturing the House next year may hinge on their ability to appeal to the sort of voters Youngkin is trying to win over in northern Virginia’s rapidly growing suburbs. “There are lots of places like northern Virginia where Democrats have really done better than they used to across the country,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “So if there’s soft...
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Afghanistan will matter for Republicans; they’re never going to give up. The dog has chomped out on the ankle. But for Democrats, no, they’re going to laugh at that and say, ‘Oh, you want to go back? Twenty years wasn’t enough? Two trillion dollars wasn’t enough? Twenty-four hundred American lives wasn’t enough?’ Who wins that argument? It’s obvious the Democrats do.”