Dr. Cameron Webb, director of Health Policy and Equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and White House Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity, addressed the Fauquier NAACP last Friday during the group’s annual fundraiser. The event, held over Zoom, also featured music, trivia and presentations about the civil rights organization’s activities over the past year.
With COVID-19 cases on the rise and the Labor Day Weekend ahead, more people want to get tested for the virus. However, finding a test may be harder with increased demand unless you plan ahead. “I went in and asked if you had any, and they said, we are all out. I asked do you know any other stores that have any, and they said, we think we are all out,” said Dr. Taison Bell, critical care physician at UVA Health. This week, Bell said he was in search of a take-home COVID-19 test, but struggled to find one in his area, near Charlottesville. He checked at least 7-8 stores online, by phone, or in ...
(Audio) Now that the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 has full FDA approval, companies and government agencies can require employees to be vaccinated. And we’re seeing more and more organizations do just that. Will this approval give us the push we need to end the pandemic? We get answers from Bill Petri, professor of medicine and immunology at the University of Virginia.
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel to discuss the latest coronavirus developments.
Dr. Susan Gray is a pediatrician. She’s also a parent. That means she looks at the COVID-19 pandemic through two lenses. As a physician and interim head of the pediatrics division at UVA Medical Center, she understands the science and supports getting young people — all people, really — vaccinated against the virus. As the parent of two children, she also appreciates the apprehension some parents may have in sending their kids back to in-person learning and risk exposure to COVID.
(Transcript) Good morning, and thank you for joining us here at Washington Post Live. I’m Karen Tumulty. I’m a columnist at The Post and deputy editor of the editorial page, and our guest today is Philip Zelikow. Mr. Zelikow is currently a professor of history at the University of Virginia, but he previously served as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and right now, he is leading an effort called the “COVID Commission Planning Group.”
(Commentary co-written by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) The Democratic Party is sometimes referred to as a “coastal” party. Indeed, Democrats hold a 53-15 edge in the combined U.S. House delegations of the West Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington. But on the country’s Atlantic Coast stretching from Virginia Beach to eastern Maine, Democrats have an even larger advantage in the nine states in the region with more than one congressional district: 63-15. Add in one-district Delaware and Vermont, and the edge expands to 65-15.
A new UVA study has found that hospitals have a wide array of bathing practices for newborns. According to a release, a national survey of hospitals found a variety of approaches to newborn skincare, including the timing of the first bath. This could potentially have lasting impacts on the baby’s health and well-being.
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears to generate a stronger immune response than the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, which has a similar formulation, a UVA study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. This is particularly true in adults age 50 and older, based on levels of antibodies, or immune cells that fight off viruses, the data showed.
For the second time in four days, researchers have found that Moderna’s vaccine for COVID-19 generated significantly higher antibody levels in recipients than a similar vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech, although not as dramatic a difference as the first study reported. In addition, Pfizer’s vaccine stimulated roughly 50 percent lower antibody levels in older adults than in younger adults, according to the study by University of Virginia researchers published Thursday.
William Sidney Porter never published this piece of apprentice work from about 1895, titled “The Return of the Songster.” It has languished in an archive at the University of Virginia, and it might be there still (or never archived at all) except for the fact that, under the name of O. Henry, Porter went on to master a form of the short story that featured a surprising conclusion. “The Return of the Songster” is now collected, along with two other previously unprinted pieces, in “101 Stories,” the Library of America’s comprehensive edition of this popular writer’s work, edited by Ben Yagoda.
Campus Pride’s 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list includes schools from Massachusetts to Oregon, from Wisconsin to Texas. The main Best of the Best list comprises 30 four-year institutions that have achieved five out of five stars on the Campus Pride Index, a benchmarking tool that tracks LGBTQ-friendly policies, programs, and practices. [UVA is among the top 30, in an unranked list.]
At the University of Virginia, which received substantial publicity when it disenrolled more than 200 students who did not comply with its vaccination requirements, the compliance rate among students was 97%, a rate that reflects the small number of exemptions that had been granted.
UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy will be hosting a new event later this month. The inaugural UVA Democracy Biennial will take place virtually on Sept. 24 and 25. According to a release, the goal is to offer understanding and practical solutions with regards to democracy and capitalism, social mobility and equity, and voting rights and political participation.
In the early years of the 20th century, the skyscraper captured the American imagination in a way that went far beyond its utility as a modern office space. In “Skyscraper Gothic,” a new exhibition at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, the influence of the iconic buildings on fine art, decorative arts and even toys and games is explored through paintings, prints and other artifacts.
Darden School of Business professor Toni Irving is the go-to person for integrating corporate strategy, ESG and organizational performance in ways that count. She teaches a course to MBA students on “getting in the room.” In a wide-ranging conversation, she revealed a powerful strategy anyone can use to more effectively get into the room where decisions are made.
UVA law professor Richard Schragger called the decisions “a pretty thorough vindication” of Northam’s case to pull down the monument. “It makes absolutely clear that monuments and memorials are government speech, and the government cannot bind itself in perpetuity” to any historical agreements, Schragger said.
When Jimmy Stanger was just 6 years old, his family adopted his sister from China. As he grew up, he continued to see his family serve and partner with organizations like the International Cooperating Ministries. It fostered in him a heart of giving, and he’s now using his platform as a professional golfer to help build churches in Colombia. Stanger, a former UVA golf star, is currently playing on the Korn Ferry Tour, just one level below the PGA Tour, and is donating $10 for every birdie he made in 2020, and will make in 2021 and beyond, through a new ministry he created called Birdies For Ho...
The man who led the UAE’s mission to Mars has been named among the world’s top 50 future leaders by the Project Management Institute, a global non-profit professionals association. Omran Sharaf, 37, project director of the Emirates Mars Mission, has been leading a team of engineers and scientists since 2014 to make the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission a success. Sharaf has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Virginia and a post-graduate degree in science and technology policy from South Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
I recently had the opportunity to interview author Anna Caritj about her debut novel “Leda and the Swan,” one of Deep South’s 2021 summer reads that takes us right into fall. In this thought-provoking piece of literary fiction, titular character Leda wakes the morning after a wild Halloween frat party with little recollection of what happened the night before. Why does her heart leap when she thinks about the guy she went home with? And might she have been the last person to glimpse her now-missing classmate, Charlotte, dressed as a swan before she disappeared into the night? Anna Caritj holds...