Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology at UVA Health, told Medscape Medical News that at one point this winter his hospital had zero cases of flu and very few RSV cases. Recently, he said, he has been seeing an increase in cases of parainfluenza after a dearth of cases during the pandemic.
On June 10, Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said by phone: “This connection with male fertility is just not true in the long term. I have seen a couple of studies showing that if a man has a high fever associated with the vaccine, there can be a temporary drop of sperm count but that comes right back.”
(Video) The nation is racing to vaccinate Americans and avoid another variant-fueled surge. Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, the co-founder and medical director of Goodstock Consulting and an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the latest.
Doctors at the UVA Medical Center are continuing to encourage all kids ages 12 and up to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “We are aware of at least 4 million cases of COVID around the country in the pediatric populations, it’s likely an underrepresentation of the true number of children that have been infected,” UVA Pediatric Infection Disease Specialist Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley said.
Michael Nelson, chief of the Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Division at University of Virginia School of Medicine, said he believes that older children should be the priority for rolling out the vaccine based on their risk of contracting COVID-19. “Taking into social considerations of the highest risk category as we enter the fall season, I do believe the 5- to 12-year age group is probably the one we should focus on,” Nelson said.
(Commentary by Paul A. Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English) If, as we are often told, the aim of art is to shock the bourgeoisie, then the contemporary art scene has become positively electric of late. In the most recent aesthetic outrage, a Sardinian artist named Salvatore Garau managed to sell an invisible sculpture, known simply as “I am,” to an anonymous buyer, as reported by the Daily Mail on June 3, 2021.
(Podcast) When we discuss education in America, we almost invariably refer to schools. But Americans have always been ambivalent about whether parents or a formal teaching establishment should ultimately be responsible for the education of the rising generation. That ambivalence itself offers a key to understanding America’s endless education debates. Guest Rita Koganzon joins us to discuss the history of these two educational traditions — institutionalized schooling and self-education — and how they might shape the future of American education. Rita Koganzon is a professor of politics and the...
(Podcast) Philip Zelikow, former executive director of the 9/11 Commission, has launched an ambitious fast-moving planning effort to scope what a commission on the pandemic in America would examine, how it would be organized, what value it would deliver, how it would navigate our treacherous political terrain, why it needs to move fast to nail down what happened. Listen in to learn more. Philip Zelikow is an American attorney, diplomat, academic, and author. He is a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Neeti Nair, associate professor of history) The National Archives’ “Annexe” is, for most scholars of the 20th century, [India’s] National Archives. The “Research Room” is where we spend years conducting archival research for our dissertations and, later, books. This is a space of national integration, if you will, where primary sources can be knit together to weave the story of a ministry, its relationship of give-and-take with states across India, and explain the crafting of a national policy.
The third project is a one-year collaboration with the University of Virginia and George Mason University. The research team received a grant from the Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative to address threats from autonomous vehicles as they become victims of emerging cyber attacks. The Smart City project integrates two novel mechanisms: city-scale video intelligence for detecting attacks and multi-agent reinforcement planning for reacting to attacks and non-cooperative vehicles.
Age increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's -- the risk doubles every five years after 65. The state's share of residents who are 65 and older is expected to increase to 19% by 2030, according to the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
In a weekly report monitoring COVID trends, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute noted the pockets of low coverage, adding that “unvaccinated individuals continue to be at risk from COVID-19 with new Variants of Concern increasing the risk of transmission, severe illness and death.”
An analysis by Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics characterized 19 Democratic-held House seats as toss-ups for 2022, compared to just two held by Republicans. If these seats were to split right down the middle between the parties, the GOP would jump to a 222-213 majority – an edge equivalent to the Democrats' current margin.
From their very first coos and smiles, many parents wonder where their babies got their unique mannerisms from. Now, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers are saying that the individual behavioral traits actually develop the moment a baby is born. "Our main findings show that soon after birth, greater connectivity between frontal and parietal brain regions is linked to improved behavioral regulation in human infants," Dr. Toby Grossmann, study co-author from the University of Virginia and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sc...
A formidable field walked out to the blocks for the women’s 400-emter individual medley. Three 2016 Olympians dove in for a chance to compete at another Games, including Olympic gold medalists Margalis and Leah Smith. But Emma Weyant, a 19-year-old who watched the Rio Games with her Sarasota Sharks teammates at home on TV, beat them all. The future UVA Cavalier came to Omaha simply wanting to swim her best in a final deep with talent.
What's it like to go from a quirky lockdown reliever, who's little known outside his own bullpen, to becoming an instant national college baseball folk hero? Over the past week, that's exactly what's happened to Virginia closer Stephen Schoch, thanks to the Cavaliers' dramatic win in the Columbia Regional and an interview that the righty gave after icing a midday 3-2 elimination game victory over South Carolina.
As Zack Gelof’s eighth-inning solo home run sailed out of Founders Park, Virginia players and coaches momentarily forgot how to act in public. The Cavaliers were understandably excited, having broken open a pitcher’s duel to keep their season alive with their fifth consecutive elimination game win. UVA defeated Dallas Baptist 4-0 to force a third and decisive game in the Columbia Super Regional. The two teams will square off Monday at 1 p.m.
Albemarle will become the last of the local police departments to launch such a program, following the Charlottesville Police Department, which started outfitting all sworn personnel with body-worn cameras in 2018, and the University of Virginia Police Department, which did so in 2015.
Marijuana will be legal in Virginia in less than three weeks, but it’ll still be banned on Virginia Tech’s campus. The University of Virginia is still evaluating the policy implications of the legislative change and, if necessary, will make changes prior to July 1.