The testing event will be first-come, first-served, and all for free. “It goes without saying that cost and access to health care should not be a barrier during these times to get such a critical resource,” said Ben Allen, the executive director of the University of Virginia Equity Center. On Dec. 5 and 6, the Blue Ridge Health District and the UVA Health System are teaming up to put on a massive COVID-19 testing event that prioritizes school and university staff.
Thousands of free self-administered COVID-19 tests will be available this weekend in the Albemarle High School parking lot. Priority will be given to employees of Albemarle County Public Schools, Charlottesville City Schools and the University of Virginia. Pre-registration is required and participants must arrive in a vehicle to receive a test.
UVA Health officials are in a similar plan-now, revise-later mode. “There has been a lot of discussion at the federal level about how to distribute it to the population and we know there will be a point where supplies are simply outstripped by the demand, especially early in the distribution process,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
As students go back to school and people return to work, the UVA Health System is gearing up for a potential surge in coronavirus cases.
Mezzanotti examined the real economic impacts of angel-investor tax credits in collaboration with a team that included Ting Xu, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. The researchers’ findings cast some doubts about the success of these programs – at least according to the broader economic goals touted by political leaders.
The seagrass project, led by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and The Nature Conservancy, was started as an experiment and has now been running for over 20 years. In that time, researchers and volunteers spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds over the seabed, hoping the seeds would take hold and birth new life into the area. The project is now widely regarded as the most successful of its kind worldwide, with new seagrass beds having grown to cover 3,612 hectares of seabed. “In my first years here, there was no seagrass and there hadn’t been for decades,” Karen McGlathery, coastal ...
Should the court allow Trump to use immigration status in determining what population counts will be used in apportionment, New Jersey is one of only two states that could lose one of its current House seats, according to an analysis by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
There remain a lot of obstacles before an algorithm like PREEMPT could be deployed in the real world: predominantly, that PREEMPT lacks many of the socioeconomic factors that have played major roles in the spread of COVID-19 to date. “Social and economic determinants play a role in disease spread,” said Anil Vullikanti, a computer scientist at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute who contributed to the research. “Algorithmic fairness is a big topic and something we all talk about. We want to make sure everyone in the community has the opportunity to get vaccinated without one com...
(Editorial) Instead of taking the field against the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday in Tallahassee, football players from the University of Virginia spent the evening lounging poolside when the game was postponed after the Cavaliers had traveled to Florida. Chalk it up to another weird moment in a year of coronavirus, but don’t overlook the dunderheaded policies that landed both teams, as well as their families and fans, in this situation and the very real costs resulting from it.
After being such a big piece in college at the University of Virginia and then earning some playing time in the early part of his NBA career, Justin Anderson found himself on the verge of being out of the league. He needed that time in the G League to give him that reset and get him back focused again.
(Transcript) Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, medical director and a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, discusses COVID’s impact on minority populations and the importance of minorities being included in the vaccine trials.
(Commentary co-written by law professor Deborah Hellman) With over 13 million coronavirus cases in the country and another surge on the way, overburdened health care systems could soon face difficult decisions about who has access to lifesaving care.
Norfolk Councilwoman Andria McClellan is officially running for Virginia lieutenant governor in 2021. McClellan, a Democrat, is a Hampton Roads native and University of Virginia graduate.
There’s no doubt that the pandemic has brought months of isolation for many, including 82-year-old Dr. Daryl Dance. Dance studied English at Virginia State University and the University of Virginia before becoming a professor of English at the University of Richmond and VCU. So, it’s no surprise that Dance turned to what she knew best during this pandemic – writing. In 11 months, she has written and published four books.
The team includes UVA alumna Kate Bedingfield, President-elect Biden’s communications director.
“The reality is there’s going to be a lot of solar going in — like, a lot,” said Jonah Fogel, a program manager with the University of Virginia’s Environmental Resilience Institute who has studied the overlap between the state’s renewables goals and local land use concerns. “For the average person driving down the roads, they’re going to be seeing energy in their life in a way that hasn’t happened before.”
Shifting toward renewable energy sources is in Dominion’s interest because its retail electricity sales have been flat and non-data center commercial facilities are seeing demand decrease, according to Prof. Bill Shobe of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
A further spike in the coronavirus may be on the way due to the Thanksgiving holiday. "Unfortunately I think that's what we all expect, that there will be a surge on top of the surge because of Thanksgiving and getting together," said Dr. Bill Petri, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Jennie S. Knight, vice provost for faculty development) At this time of racial reckoning, when many white Americans are waking up to the realities of racial injustice and inequities in the United States, faculty members are no exception. The University of Virginia and the city of Charlottesville were pushed to reckon systematically with local and national histories of racism and contemporary racial inequities in the summer of 2017, when white supremacists attacked both the campus and the city, leaving Heather Heyer murdered, dozens of people injured and thousands in our communit...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be providing 1,000 free, self-administered COVID-19 tests this weekend. The department is partnering up with UVA Health and the Blue Ridge Health District to offer the tests between noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, December 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6. Tests will be available in the back parking lot at Albemarle High School on Hydraulic Road. You must arrive in a vehicle to receive a test. Pre-registration is required.