Twenty thousand University of Virginia students have been shipped COVID-19 tests. An unknown number will live on Grounds and in the Charlottesville area this fall.
UVA students and staff are set to return to Grounds the first week of September, but not before submitting a mandatory COVID-19 test. Now, those numbers are coming to the forefront.
(Editgorial) It has begun. Virginia Tech, Radford University and Roanoke College already have suspended or “removed” more than a dozen students for violating anti-COVID protocols. The University of Virginia warns it will do the same if necessary.
"We’ve had a number of cases that we’ve managed, and some small groupings of students who’ve had COVID-19. We had one student who was hospitalized for a short time,” Student Health and Wellness Center Director Chris Holstege said.
The efforts to find any solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have led to new FDA authorization to use convalescent plasma to treat some hospitalized patients, a new step in treating the illness. UVA Health has conducted clinical trials.
UVA Professor of Law and Biomedical Ethics Lois Shepherd said, if the state of Virginia were to mandate an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, it would likely be upheld.
“The latest I’ve heard is it’s likely we will not replace VMI,” UVa head coach Bronco Mendenhall said Friday. “That’s the latest I’ve heard and so that then would lead to an opening game versus Virginia Tech. Again, it’s not definitive yet. Latest I’ve heard though is that’s the direction we’re headed.”
The University of Virginia prides itself on its academic prestige. Embracing academics is an admirable goal for any student-athlete, but it’s easier said than done this fall. With COVID-19 still posing a public health risk, there’s an argument that for a safe fall college football season to occur, undergraduate students shouldn’t be allowed on campuses.
The two biggest questions on the minds of Virginia Cavaliers fans collectively have been simple. Who will UVA play to open the 2020 campaign and will fans be able to attend the home games this season? UVA head coach Bronco Mendenhall addressed both of those questions on Friday.
Both Virginia and Virginia Tech anticipate a limit of 1,000 fans per football game, according to current Virginia guidelines on large gatherings.
Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under Obama and senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses Biden’s performance and key takeaways from the Democratic National Convention.
In May, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that COVID-19 patients treated with remdesivir had an average recovery time of 11 days, compared to 15 days for patients who had received a placebo. Taison Bell, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Virginia who was involved in the May study, said the new study doesn’t necessarily show that remdesivir is ineffective.
Located 300 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, Fort Detroit connected to Western Pennsylvania by Indian trails. “The alarm in Pittsburgh was because the British had Indian allies. They knew that the Indian allies would be raiding into Ohio after the British captured Detroit,” said Alan Taylor, professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of “The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels and Indian Allies.”
In the 1950s and ’60s, television and photographs played a large role in growing protest movements, showing images of violence on Black Americans to a broad population of viewers. Such images convey the violence that Black people worry about daily, said Kevin Gaines, a civil rights professor at the University of Virginia.
It’s more likely that Trump will do what he’s done in the past: attempt to project strength, according to Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political analyst.
The president has said mailed ballots are so vulnerable to fraud that their widespread use could cost him the election, a widely disputed claim. “If there is one mind I can’t read, it’s Donald Trump’s,” said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “His tweets have revealed a lot — he praises mail-in voting in Florida because they have had a string of good Republican governors, but states such as Nevada with Democratic leadership are full of fraud.”
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas of the University of Virginia says President Trump is shattering norms in a very aggressive way and his speeches every night at the RNC may be overkill, that could lead to fewer viewers on the final night.
Aynne Kokas, a Kluge fellow at the Library of Congress who specializes in U.S.-China media and tech relations, said in an interview that there are multiple issues with Trump naming specific companies as prospective buyers of TikTok.
With most American theaters still closed, Hollywood’s increasing dependency on China will leave studios even more susceptible to Beijing’s censorship pressure. “This is a moment where these issues will only come to the forefront even more. ... We’re seeing the Chinese market actually moving even more toward a very strongly government-controlled landscape,” said Aynne Kokas, author of “Hollywood Made in China” and a media studies professor at the University of Virginia.
COVID-19 has affected all of us in various ways. Dr. Yun Michael Shim, who is a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the UVA Medical Center, has spent the past several months helping to treat coronavirus patients.