(Commentary by Christian McMillen, associate dean for the social sciences and professor of history) I am a historian. I don’t predict the future. And I generally don’t write about the present. I think about how the past created the world in which we now live. But these days, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, I find the past, present, and future colliding with one another. My knowledge of the past, especially past epidemics and pandemics, means I cannot help but draw eerie parallels between the past and the present.
The Barbers played at Cave Spring High School before going to the University of Virginia, where each was a first-team All-ACC player in 1995 and 1996.
UVA law professor Kevin Cope discusses a survey he conducted on which civil liberties Americans were willing to give up in order to tackle the coronavirus.
(Commentary by Drs. Scott Heysell and Rebecca Dillingham, UVA infectious disease physicians) Virginia currently detains around 60,000 people in conditions that, from the perspective of rapidly transmitting viruses like COVID-19, are similar to landlocked cruise ships.
The study, published Friday, uses an economic forecasting model to estimate the economic effects of COVID-19 on the state.
More than $65 million in emergency federal funding will be made available to D.C.-area colleges and universities, the Trump administration announced Thursday, money designed to support students who have struggled to afford basic needs since the coronavirus shuttered their campuses and cost many their jobs. (The University of Virginia received $5.86 million.)
(Commentary) Explained UVA’s Philip Zelikow, a defense analyst: “No country is now more deeply invested in those legacy notions and paradigms than the United States, and no country faces more difficult challenges of adjustment.” But with ballooning deficits, “folks will look a little harder about just what war, exactly, we are thinking about, with less tolerance for ‘Let’s just increase the [Defense Department] topline,’” Zelikow said.
According to Sheila Crane, chair of UVA’s Architectural History Department, part of our collective fascination with balconies lies in their unique position as gateways. “Balconies act as liminal spaces that bridge public and private life,” she said, citing a line from French sociologist Henri Lefebvre’s 1992 book Rhythmanalysis, where he honors the “marvelous invention of the balcony” as the place where one can best grasp the “fleeting rhythms of urban life.”
Jeffrey W. Holmes, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine and inaugural director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the University of Virginia, will become dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in July.
A Monmouth University poll published on Wednesday showed Trump’s approval rating at 46%. A Quinnipiac survey showed 45% of Americans approved of the job he was doing. “Trump’s rally around the flag effect could have, and arguably should have been, higher,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the UVA Center for Politics.
WUSA9 spoke with two UVA doctors who said the disparities in race are true, and there is also a socioeconomic component that can’t be ignored. “This pandemic is going to truly highlight the flaw in medicine, and show you that these disparities affect all,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton. In this pandemic, board-certified emergency medicine physician Dr. Leigh-Ann Webb said more people need to realize how we’re all intertwined.
It’s one thing to claim that Athens is a vibrant college town, but “Cool Town” by Grace Elizabeth Hale gets into the nitty-gritty of how the Southern town launched an entire music genre and helped shape American culture. Hale, a University of Georgia alum and current professor at the University of Virginia, talked about how her time in Athens taught her about the birthplace of the alternative music scene.
Dr. Cameron Webb, the director of health policy and equity for the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, said the lack of data is “very troubling. National trends showing a disproportionate racial impact are not shocking to experts because of a longstanding health deficit for blacks in America,” he said.
“After this virus is done infecting … it will expose a lot of weaknesses in the health care system. The world will not be the same,” said Dr. Tyson Bell, a pulmonology and intensive care physician at the University of Virginia and medical director of the intensive care unit. “Early when Virginia was rolling out testing, we had a restrictive set of rules as to who could be tested or not. We [at the University of Virginia] set up our own in-house testing so that we didn’t have to depend on rules we didn't think were appropriate or broad enough to really get a good sense [of who needs testing] an...
Female gynecologic oncologists reported a median annual salary of $380,000, compared with $500,000 for men. “The hope was for there to be no difference between male and female physician compensation, but it was not surprising that a significant difference was present,” Dr. Katherine Croft, fellow in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA School of Medicine, said.
The U.S. divorce rate plummeted during the Great Depression and the 2008 financial crash. Expect the same during the pandemic, says Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “When society is facing a tremendous challenge or there’s a big uptick in suffering, people orient themselves in a less self-centered way and in a more family-centric way,” Wilcox said.
“There is a large number of patients who have health emergencies and we’re concerned that those individuals may be avoiding medical care and trying to manage their symptoms at home when they’d be best served getting help at a hospital, and these conditions could worsen and be very harmful in the long term,” said Dr. Deborah Vinton, emergency medicine director at UVA Health.
The University of Virginia is preparing a Virginia-specific model to predict the COVID-19 peak. Northam expects more information on that model in the next few days.
The University of Virginia is preparing a Virginia-specific model to predict the COVID-19 peak. Northam expects more information on that model in the next few days.
Earlier this week, UVA President Jim Ryan announced the creation of the UVA Emergency Assistance Fund. According to the site, the fund is for employees and contracted workers who are facing disruptions in employment and anticipated financial hardships resulting from the pandemic.