Last fall, the University of Virginia Center for Politics released a poll finding that a majority of people who had voted to reelect former President Trump in 2020 now wanted their state to secede from the Union. The UVA data also showed a stunning 41% of those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 also said it might now be "time to split the country."
The latest prediction modeling from the University of Virginia estimates the Omicron variant now makes up 94% of new cases in Virginia, overtaking the Delta variant.
More than 3,300 Virginians are hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Friday, a new record for the state since the start of the pandemic, as the omicron variant is causing illness among all ages. Despite the omicron seeming less virulent than the delta variant, it is causing many more cases than delta, leading models to forecast “a deluge of hospitalizations” far exceeding those of last winter, University of Virginia researchers said Friday.
“Though milder than delta, omicron is far from harmless, and far more than ‘just a cold,’” researchers from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported Friday. “It is still hospitalizing substantial numbers of patients, and still carries the risk of long COVID.”
Last week, Danville and Pittsylvania County recorded more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases, and if projections hold, that figure could easily triple by the end of the month. Friday’s update from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute paints a dire picture for the next few weeks and especially Virginia’s health care system.
Gov. Ralph Northam has granted a full pardon to a man sentenced to life in prison in the 2002 killing of a pregnant woman and the shooting of her boyfriend. The Virginian-Pilot reports that Northam granted the “absolute pardon" Tuesday to Lamar Edward Barnes, now 40, in the slaying of Amy McRae, and the shooting of Mark King inside a house in Portsmouth. In recent years, the case was taken up by the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia’s law school.
Charlottesville Interim Deputy Director of Communications David Dillehunt said the city has been working with Albemarle County and the University of Virginia to address community needs, as it does during major emergencies and disasters.
The University of Virginia says its spring semester will get underway as planned, and all courses will be in-person, but some additional measures are being put in place to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Virginia is moving up its deadline for students, faculty, and staff to get their COVID-19 booster shot. UVA announced Fridaythat the date has changed from Feb. 1 to Jan. 14.
(By Jim Detert, John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration) Fred Keller, the founder of Cascade Engineering, wanted to show that a for-profit business could also help address society’s social ills. So he accepted an employee’s suggestion that they hire unemployed locals. They rented a van, went to a low-income area of Grand Rapids, Michigan and – with the eight men they identified – started Cascade’s welfare-to-career program. Their first attempt failed completely.
UVA Health is not restricting elective procedures, officials said Friday. Because UVA utilizes a recently constructed and completed multi-story portion of the hospital for COVID care, the hospital is able to expand and contract COVID units as needed.
UVA students, staff and faculty will need to get COVID-19 vaccine boosters by Jan. 14 after University officials moved up the deadline by more than two weeks.
[UVA alumna] Demi Skipper was a 29-year-old newlywed working at home during the pandemic giving advice to people about how to save money with a tech app when she decided to try something crazy.
Steven Ginsberg, The Washington Post’s national editor who led the organization’s political coverage through the Trump years and helped propel the company to one of its most successful periods with reporting that brought Pulitzer Prizes along with enormous readership, was named as the paper’s new managing editor Thursday. Ginsberg has worked at The Post throughout his entire professional career, beginning upon graduation from the University of Virginia in 1994.
Taking the massification envisioned by “Higher Education for American Democracy” as the backdrop, we reveal how collegiate activism [at three public university campuses, including UVA] is shaped through two broadly opposing channels that steer students into divergent types of political mobilization and bring them into contact with different social and organizational networks. The progressive channel draws participants further inside their schools through a variety of institutional supports. The conservative channel, on the other hand, relies primarily on externally funded groups, often with an...
(Commetnary by Catherine Ward, a student at the School of Law) Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s (R) proposed executive order related to critical race theory (CRT) in Virginia public schools strikes against the spirit of the Virginia Constitution. In 1971, Virginia ratified its current constitution, which delivers explicit guidance on education policymaking. The constitution largely sought to ensure that the period of Massive Resistance — the period in which Virginia public schools closed to avoid desegregating — could not be repeated. As a result, the constitution’s drafters put primary ed...
In an accompanying editorial, Randy Jones, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, emphasized that improved treatment counseling at the time of diagnosis can help to minimize the likelihood of regret later. This communication, he wrote, should consider the patient’s personal values, stress shared decision-making between patients and doctors, and aim for an "understanding of realistic expectations and adverse effects that are possible during treatment."
Dr. Spencer Payne, an ear, nose and throat physician at UVA Health, told USA TODAY there is no scientific proof to back up the claim. Garlic cloves, depending on how far they are placed in the ear, have the potential to damage the eardrum, cause infection and leave rashes or irritation. "The other possibility is that you can't get it out," Payne said. "Specifically organic material, you're at much increased risk if you can't get it back out. We do generally recommend not putting anything in your ear."
But to others, including some legal experts, O’Connor’s decision is a judicial misstep. Amid a rapidly evolving public health emergency, rulings like these further complicate military officials’ work, said Micah Schwartzman, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “It’s quite surprising to see federal judges intervening in the middle of a pandemic to regulate how the military sets its policy with respect to vaccination. That’s not something we’ve seen before,” he said.
January is nicknamed Divorce Month, when couples split after one last holiday season. It turns out, though, that pandemic stress isn’t making this year’s numbers worse. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says COVID-19 has actually reduced the divorce rate.