When it comes to kids and the coronavirus, one of the few things that is clear is that children can become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, at all ages. “There are a number of papers that show that children can become infected,” explains Dr. Steven Zeichner, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. “Some of them are symptomatic, there’ve been a few deaths” – but, he adds, “a large number are asymptomatic.” And for children who do show symptoms, he says, research shows their “disease course” tends to be milder than in adults.
With government money paying the salaries of priests and ministers, some legal experts see a troubling precedent given the separation of church and state called for in the Constitution. Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in constitutional issues and religion, said the treatment of faith groups goes beyond fairness by giving them preferential treatment. “That’s something we haven’t seen before,” he said. “That’s new.”
Religious groups are normally exempt from Small Business Administration loans, but a loophole was imposed after sustained lobbying in Washington, D.C. Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in constitutional issues and religion who has studied the Paycheck Protection Program, said, “The government grants special dispensation, and that creates a kind of structural favoritism. And that favoritism was worth billions of dollars.”
(Commentary by Camilo Sanchez, director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the School of Law) “Latin America is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to being a tough test for the pallid health systems in the region, the COVID-19 vortex puts in check two regional projects that seemed to be moving in a slow yet stable fashion over the last three decades: the fight against poverty and the strengthening of democratic institutions.”
UVA Health says research conducted by its nurses and professors is shortening the time it takes to administer a key treatment for children with cancer. Blood platelet transfusions that had previously taken between two to four hours for kids now can take just 30 minutes.
The University of Virginia says it is working with other universities to change a new regulation that will restrict international students in the United States. According to a post on UVA President Jim Ryan’s Facebook page, the new regulation says that international students can stay in this country as long as their educational experience is not entirely conducted online.
The project was instigated by the UVA Foundation-owned resort’s desire to introduce multiple infrastructure improvements, including a new golf building, tennis facilities and entry road. The project also included the building of a new practice facility for the UVA men’s and women’s golf teams, short game practice areas for members and resort guests, and a larger practice ground for all players.
Chief Justice Roberts’ two opinions were a study in subtle contrasts, observes UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash. “Oddly enough, it seems like the New York state prosecutor has more authority than Congress does,” he said.
Solving the school problem is crucial for parents and kids. Elena Tuerk, a UVA child psychologist, proposed a corps of child care providers, potentially paid for by states or the federal government, who could supervise children when their parents are at work.
(By Anushay Hossain, UVA alumna who is a journalist and political analyst based in Washington) Like the thousands of other students who have come to America to attend world-class colleges and universities, I came to the University of Virginia in 1998 when I was 18 years old. Far away from my family and friends in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I found a new home in Charlottesville.
University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she talked about the latest in national politics, including Amy Kennedy’s primary win this week in New Jersey – and what to look for next.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who’s written extensively about religious freedom, similarly suggested the Our Lady decision’s impact on wage and hour law could be muted.
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, who signed a brief siding with the religious schools, conceded that as a result of Wednesday's opinion, there may be injustices in some cases, with teachers being fired over forbidden criteria such as age or disability, only to have no recourse in courts. “We tolerate the occasional abuses because the cost of judges and juries second-guessing every personnel decision ... are on the whole much greater,” Laycock said.
The News Leaders Association has also been working with Meredith Clark, lead researcher and an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, in hopes of creating an easy and quick process for news leaders to fill out the survey, thus increasing participation. Clark has also been conducting case study research to offer organizations tailored approaches and tools to help them improve newsroom diversity.
Only 1.9% of contacts developed laboratory-confirmed clinical influenza after post-exposure prophylaxis with baloxavir compared to 13.6% of those assigned to placebo, reported Dr. Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia and colleagues. Moreover, risk of influenza infection was lower in the baloxavir group, regardless of symptoms, the authors wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.
As other countries bring COVID-19 cases to manageable numbers and cautiously implement reopening policies, many around the world are looking at the U.S. and asking: “what went wrong?” Now, a team from the University of Virginia and the University of British Columbia has applied big data analytics to reveal a major source of this failure: a distinctly American brand of individualism.
G. Thomas Tanselle, who was president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia from 1993 to 2006, is the most influential bibliographical scholar of his generation. His “Descriptive Bibliography” is a “comprehensive guide to . . . the activity of describing books as physical objects.” In essence, a bibliographical description anatomizes a book’s structure and supplies a schematic overview of its printing history.
Fitch Ratings has assigned a ‘AAA’ long-term rating to the following series of bonds issued by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, on behalf of the University of Virginia.
(By Marlene Daut, professor of African diaspora studies) Much of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the U.S. and the U.K. should finally compensate some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of slavery that still linger today. But to me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti.