Increasing amounts of available vaccine and the growing number of fully inoculated residents will keep COVID-19 case counts low and society reopening, UVA Health doctors said Thursday.
Spencer Buddington and his friends Tanner Humbert, Clayton Ball and Bryce Vandergriff were shopping for college room decor in January when a general store owner approached them, pleading for help. The store owner’s friend, James Ward, who was at the store helping out, had suffered a heart attack and was unconscious. “All of us know CPR,” Buddington says. “Three of us are Eagle Scouts and the other is a lifeguard.” The 19-year-old University of Virginia freshman and Eagle Scout from Troop 222 in Abington, Va., led the way into the store, got on the ground and began administering chest compressi...
“Michael may have high name identification for all his TV appearances, yet there are many hours of taped comments that will be inconvenient in a primary campaign,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “On the other hand, Larry Hogan got nominated and elected twice. So the Trump wing of the GOP in Maryland doesn’t have the stature of Godzilla,” Sabato said.
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at the University of Virginia's Crystal Ball, defended the toss-up rating, saying the advantage of being an incumbent is still very real. "We're very reluctant to start off incumbents, like Laura Kelly in this case, as outright underdogs," he said. "Her approval numbers have generally been above water. And in these gubernatorial races, as long as they're not dying to get rid of you, you'll probably have at least a fighting chance to come up."
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a former CNN political commentator, has "got the biggest name ID and he's got the most money to spend," said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes races at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "If a single candidate could consolidate the non-McAuliffe vote, that person might be able to catch up," he added. "But I don't know if anyone is able to do that in the time remaining before the primary."
The recent focus on funneling millions into minority-owned banks stems from an awareness by large banks of the reputation for trustworthiness those institutions have established within their communities, sometimes over decades, said Gregory Fairchild, a business professor at the University of Virginia and expert in the field of community development finance.
Across all sectors, Asian workers were represented the most in senior, mid, and professional-level roles although they are employed in lower numbers than Black and Hispanic workers. “The internationalization of Asia and Latin America and the financial opportunities there breed an easier path for Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans to have a place in this industry,” said Martin Davidson, professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He continued: “That’s not to say that things are wonderful for Latinos and wonderful for Asian Americans, becau...
Dr. Steven DeKosky, the James Carroll Flippin professor of medical science and the vice president and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, says that the current emphasis on biomarkers is the result of research that has led to our increased understanding of the development of AD. “The natural history of AD is that people who are relatively stable in cognitive status begin to experience cognitive decline, which leads to diagnosis. As the first drugs were developed, we got beyond confirming diagnosis to monitoring effects of therapy. Then we moved back and started being able to ...
So far, roughly 3.5 million Virginians have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, but the ages of people ready for the shot is different depending on where you are in the commonwealth. “Now we’ve vaccinated for the most part the people that have been eager to get vaccinated and those who’ve been on the fence, but willing and have access,” Dr. Taison Bell of UVA Health said. “Your decision to get vaccinated is partly linked to how accessible it is in your community.”
Without language — from the still unpassed portions of the Lorna Breen Act — specifying how that funding must be used, Corey Feist and others worry the money will not be effective in addressing the crisis to come. “Many are suffering in silence because of the huge stigma that remains in the industry,” said Feist, who also oversees 1,200 doctors and health workers as head of the University of Virginia Physicians Group.
The Virginia Film Festival will continue its Beyond the Screen: A Virtual Conversation Series with a livestreamed discussion at 8 p.m. May 2 with cast members and the showrunner for “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Station 19.” In “Beyond the Screen: Reflecting Reality,” Chandler Ferrebee, program manager for the film festival, will moderate a conversation featuring actor Jason George, a University of Virginia alumnus and VAFF Advisory Board member; his fellow cast members Kevin McKidd, Okieriete Onaodowan and Kim Raver; and executive producer and showrunner Krista Vernoff.
There are open vaccine appointments at the Seminole Square clinic, which is operated by the Blue Ridge Health District and the University of Virginia Health System.
(Video) There has been a recent jump in health care workers providing home services for Medicare patients, but researchers at UVA Health say it is nowhere close to meeting the surging demand.
A new experimental Covid-19 vaccine has shown promising results in early animal testing, according to researchers who say the preventive may provide protection against existing and future strains of the novel coronavirus, and cost about $1 per dose. The vaccine developed by researchers, including those from the University of Virginia, prevented pigs from being becoming ill with a pig model coronavirus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
Autism appears to develop differently in girls and boys, so the findings of research conducted mainly with boys might not apply to girls, a new UVA study suggests.
Virginia universities plan a return to campuses in the fall, but there are questions if the COVID-19 vaccine can be mandated.
UVA’s Miller Center is getting ready to host another installment of its Democracy Dialogues series. This presentation, put on in partnership with the Institute of Democracy and the Democracy Initiative, will take place April 29 at 9 a.m. According to a release, it will feature Senators Tim Kaine of Virginia and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia as well as UVA President Jim Ryan and Democracy Initiative co-director Melody Barnes.
The Princeton Review says the University of Virginia is the No. 1 school in the nation for its financial aid packages. This is one of several high rankings UVA has achieved.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at UVA’s Miller Center) This week marked the close of Cuba’s eighth Communist Party Congress, held every five years to announce important political and policy shifts. And this year’s came at a complicated time for the island nation.
Research from UVA and Duke University recently found that climate change and violence together are driving increased migration from Honduras. In the period between 2012 and 2019, when rainfall decreased, the number of Honduran families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border rose. That number increased even further during periods with higher murder rates.